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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming in and thank them for all of the work that they do. I apologise for not being here yesterday but I had to attend the conference centre. I am glad that Deputy Hourigan mentioned the tuckshop issues so I can set my questions on that aside and ask questions on other matters. I have worked on prison and penal reform for a very long time. I am really...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Are the terms the same?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes. Perhaps we can discuss the following issue another time. As the scheme has operated for so long has the service analysed the long-term rates of recidivism and so on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, but there are plenty of other factors as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The last time I was in Mountjoy Prison a fantastic prisoner advocacy programme had been introduced whereby training and information was provided about preventing and treating Hepatitis C.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I, too, congratulate the Red Cross.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Eddie D'Arcy runs a SOLAS Compass project that provides training in bicycle repairs to young offenders in Wheatfield Prison. I am concerned about the 18 to 24-year age group due to their potential to reoffend. Conducting a SOLAS project in the community is one thing but continuing it in Wheatfield is important. Has any progress been made?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: They are children.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The scheme is more expensive and the witnesses may be asked about it at future meetings held by the Committee of Public Accounts. In my view, it would be money very well spent and I thank the witnesses for their responses.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 26. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount invested in leadership and CPD within An Garda Síochána; her plans to invest in leadership and CPD initiatives in the future; the recommendations The Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland has made in this area; the actions she plans to take to support leadership and CPD; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Strategies (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the development of her justice plan; the areas she plans to prioritise as part of the plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41516/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 93. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has plans for updated health promotion campaigns under the Healthy Ireland framework for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41943/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in encouraging the option of breastfeeding including through the Healthy Ireland framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41942/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 407. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure the delivery of the National Traveller Health Action Plan. [35132/20]

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am delighted to have an opportunity to contribute to this Bill and to congratulate the Minister for bringing in the largest social welfare budget in the history of the State. It is an extraordinary achievement which is based on how we have been able to borrow money to fund the essential services that my colleague has talked about. It includes wage subsidy schemes, Covid schemes and the...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am here.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Last week, the Taoiseach, utterly correctly, gave the support of the Government and this House to an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, a lawyer murdered in Northern Ireland in the late 1980s, as did a Seanad motion, the Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, of which I am a member, and the Alliance Party, as an absolute imperative for the rule of law....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services (9 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 163. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the work being done by Tusla to process certificates of eligibility for adoption applications and administer necessary training specifically the application made by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42245/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What the Minister of State said is very welcome and it is appropriate to wait for the EMA sign-off. I believe in people's minds that has already happened and they are planning when access to the vaccine might happen for them. In that sense what I am saying about the how and the when becomes important. There may be ways in which we can use the technology we have, such as the Covid tracker...