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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wanted to ask that to tease out the issue between the role of the prison visiting committees vis-à-visthe other structures and how that could and should work. I visited Cloverhill with Ms Ryan a little while ago and I visited Limerick, though without the prison visiting committee. On the communication between the governor, the people who are in prison and the staff, some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to bring in the IPRT and Dr. Garrihy. I want to reconcile this point because it is obvious we have been left with some space in the Bill. The heads even reference that there is a review going on, so it is clearly an open question for the Department. We might as well have the conversation now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree. We can take the appointments piece as agreed, essentially because that is dealt within the Bill and because we know where that is going. It is a matter of what it does, of independence and of interaction. I agree with Ms Brady's distillation of the points. Does Dr. Garrihy have a view?

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (13 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 106. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the details of the proposals on domestic violence leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50289/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail the specifics of the extension of the working family payment; if there is an estimate of the number of additional families that will now be eligible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49480/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support a matter relating to the working family payment and the closure of a person’s (details supplied) application for renewal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49481/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Budget 2023 (13 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 161. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the impact that the Budget 2023 changes on childcare costs will have for parents in Dún Laoghaire having regard to the unduly high costs currently incurred there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50032/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to raise the free school books scheme, as announced in budget 2023. The scheme was presented as a universal measure from which all families and children would benefit in a €9.6 billion budget in the Department of Education. A total of over €50 million is being spent on free books but this does not apply to children in fee-paying schools. We have just heard from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The cultural piece in respect of multiple seat constituencies is important. There are demands to be everywhere. Everyone's event is, naturally, the most important to them but I would like to put my kid to bed some nights of the week. Choices have to be made and it is very difficult. We must talk positively about politics before we can attract more people but we cannot be dishonest about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We can go further.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do. However, the reason those benefits are paid to women is because those needs have tended historically to fall more often to women.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will make a point about the universality of the free books scheme. Everybody was hoping that scheme would be universal. There are people in the Taoiseach's constituency who might like that to be the case. We need universal measures for families.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (11 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific plans in place for free school-books as announced in Budget 2023 including whether it will apply to all children, including the children in fee paying primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49594/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support organising bus transport for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49595/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (11 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process by which the feed-in tariff for the microgeneration support scheme is set; his view on whether the Regulator should have a role in setting prices; his further views on whether income from the power generated should be taxed given the imperative to bring more households into the scheme and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Museum Projects (11 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 4 October 2022, if there has been a competitive tendering process for the promotion of the proposed National Children's Science Museum; if there are any other promoters in receipt of "free of charge" licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50189/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Assessments (11 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 766. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on waiting times for assessments of children with autism in Dún Laoghaire; the number of children waiting for such an assessment; the number of assessments conducted and completed in each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50033/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (6 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 73. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which the extra €67 million budget allocation will be spent in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48988/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Diplomatic Representation (6 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact that his Department has had with the Russian Embassy in Dublin since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48985/22]