Results 5,281-5,300 of 8,276 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for outlining the strategic benefits of this project. I work with the IDA in my role as the Minister of State with responsibility for financial services. I have a very strong interest in making sure sites are available and ready throughout the island. The Ireland for finance strategy has a very strong regional focus and it is very important to me that suitable sites are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh for raising this Topical Issue matter and I apologise for being here on behalf of the Department of Health. By raising this matter, the Deputy gave me the opportunity and impetus to spend more time reading about Dr. Kathleen Lynn. I am glad I had that opportunity to learn more about this extraordinary woman who was a suffragette, a woman of Mayo, after my own...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would certainly love to see the hospital named after a strong, professional, capable woman. That would be wonderful. We have so many things named after men in every walk of life. I do not pretend to be qualified enough or to know enough to be able to assess Dr. Lynn's position in this relative to the other medics who might be in contention. When the hospital is opened I would love to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Educational Psychological Service (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator for raising this important matter. I am here on behalf of the Department of Education today, but it is an area in which I have a very deep personal interest. I thank the Senator for setting it out so clearly. The Department of Education wanted me to highlight that the role of NEPS has evolved and changed over the years, and the service provides a broad range of supports...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Educational Psychological Service (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator for raising this matter. He is correct that early intervention across any stream, whether it is learning or psychological support, can genuinely make a difference, not just to how well children develop in those areas but to their well-being, the management of their anxiety and their mental health at every stage throughout that process and also their inclusion within the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator for her questions on this important issue for local authorities and the apprenticeship programme. I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, who cannot be here. As the Senator is aware, a key commitment in the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025 is to grow the number of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is very important that the Senator should do so. These matters must be supervised and overseen and it is important to provide an update. The requirement to give an update always focuses the minds of civil servants in ensuring targets are reached. Not every target can be reached but a failure to do so must be explained and there must be a clear pathway to meeting it. The response from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide assistance on a stamp 4 renewal application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6207/23]

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is extraordinary that he can laugh away that amount of money.

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is even more interesting------

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry?

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What might be better is if the Deputy came into the House with costed proposals. It might be better if he signalled any interest in those proposals in the Sinn Féin budget document. The word "mortgage" features once in the Sinn Féin mortgage document. Sinn Féin makes no effort to provide for private home owners of any description in its mortgage document or its housing...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----and I am responding on the Sinn Féin motion, which is uncosted and would increase house prices, so the Deputy should allow me to finish. The overall fiscal framework has not changed. The cost-of-living crisis remains and, as Deputy Doherty and others know, the Government is well aware of the challenges people are facing. In that context, in the coming weeks, as has been well...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How much will it cost?

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputies for the points they raised. I will try to address as many of them as I can. I do not necessarily agree with all the points made but I do see coherent trends among them, including a real and genuine concern around inflation and increasing house prices, and the targeting of supports most effectively. I will try to address all of those concerns. As the Minister for...

Seanad: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The provisions contained in the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022 will play a key role in driving positive cultural change in financial services organisations that will benefit consumers, employees and wider society. These provisions are designed to ensure that this change in the financial sector will happen in a way that is both real and enduring. The Bill...

Seanad: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will try to address the points raised by the Senators as best I can. Senator Lombard is correct to raise access to cash points. He will have heard me speak forcefully on the radio that morning about Castletownbere in particular and the impact that would have. As Minister of State with responsibility for financial institutions, credit unions, and insurance, one of the things I am very...

Seanad: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There have to be fair procedures at every stage. I want to go through some of the engagement that was correctly highlighted with the committee at an earlier stage. The fair procedures have to work both ways. For example, there is the six-year rule highlighted by Senator Black and the look-back in regard to fitness and probity. The reason that is being introduced is that there was a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Senator Keogan for raising this issue. Of course, she is right. When this was introduced in 2019, it was part of the climate action plan and part of a climate focus on making a transition and bringing the benefit-in-kind, BIK, in line with the other vehicle taxes, namely, vehicle registration tax, VRT, and motor tax which, of course, are carbon-based. The Senator is also correct in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Senator. I recognise that when something was legislated for in the Finance Act four years ago, it can seem a bit remote. The purpose of it was to enable fleet planning by companies, not by employees. The latter would not perhaps have had the same familiarity with the provisions of the Finance Act as we might have understood their employers to have, particularly when it came to...