Results 5,481-5,500 of 8,276 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with everything the Minister of State said. I am sorry for having raised a subject, Garda youth diversion projects, covered in the justice Vote, but I presume that juvenile liaison officers come under the Garda Vote. Let us continue.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: One of the gaps or points of concern in this area is that the Garda Youth Diversion Bureau in Harcourt Square makes the decisions as to whether to prosecute young people or to put them on the youth diversion programme. In this regard, one of the concerns I have had for many years is that when a referral is made, whether it is for a welfare referral, an anger management course, a sexual...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: They come through the Garda Síochána to the Minister's office and the Department, and then they are published.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I note 92 trainee gardaí started in Templemore yesterday, which is welcome. There were difficulties with recruitment this year and there is underspending on that, which the Minister of State has accounted for. There are many different reasons for that to look at in the future. What is the plan for recruitment for next year to make sure we do not have that underspend? We do not...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State. It looks like there is a 33% increase in the overtime budget, having accounted for the underspend on recruitment, which is in the Minister of State's notes. It is an extraordinary additional spend on overtime. I note the significant reasons for that, including the investigation of organised and serious crime, which remains a significant concern for An Garda...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is with tremendous sadness that I again contribute to deeply important statements on abuse at certain education institutions, specifically Willow Park Junior School and Blackrock College, which are located in the geographic heart of my constituency. I will speak about four issues, namely, first and foremost, the survivors, as well as the broader school community in my constituency, the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to ask the Tánaiste again about the implementation of the sexual offences Bill where we would have legal representation for victims of sexual assault. I met with Aimee Foley who very bravely became a public advocate for this in challenging her own father and the difficulty she faced in terms of communication with the DPP and understanding court process would be made easier by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 53. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the Report of the Commission on Defence Forces of February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57959/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Did the stakeholder consultation include politicians, such as members of this committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Was there market research involving members of the Committee of Public Accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It may have been someone else, but I received a call asking me my views on the national lottery and how much I believed was spent on good causes-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----and how much retailers got.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Perhaps it was, and we will have the opportunity to ask the operator in great detail about that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There you go. So, it was not the regulator.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to discuss the regulator's investigations around the 98% and the 2%. Ms Boate told my colleague, Deputy Kelly, that the regulator considered it and worked out that there was not an issue. What processes professionally and personally did she go through in that regard? It is the issue of "shall" and "may".

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ms Boate took internal legal advice.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Did she take any external legal advice?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As legislators, we look at the words "shall" and "may" very differently. I will provide an example. Ms Boate said she came from a corporate regulatory background. Is that not right?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Much of that is about what is allowed and not allowed and what is permitted and prohibited. To take an example, section 17(1) of the Companies Act 2014 states "A company may be formed [as in, it has the permission to be formed] for any lawful purpose by" and so on. However, section 17(2) states "The liability of a member of a company at any time shall be limited to". They mean different things.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: "May" is a permission. "Shall" is a prohibition or a mandate. They are totally different things. "You may not" means you are not permitted to. If I say Ms Boate may not smoke in here, it does not mean she is allowed not to smoke but that she may not smoke, she must not smoke.