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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The witnesses are very welcome, and I thank them for coming today. I think NAMA has done a very good job in recent years in difficult circumstances. Its return to the Exchequer of the sums that are there is very welcome, particularly now. I recognise it is a commercial enterprise operating in a commercial environment, which is extremely difficult. It needs to make commercial judgment...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Does that mean no money has been spent on legal advice relating to engaging with the Comptroller and Auditor General on the report or any of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: NAMA is clearly in a wind-down phase overall. It has some excellent staff with very good property and commercial experience. Some of them are leaving. Where are they going? Is there any way for the State to retain some of that expertise?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is essentially a mix of professional services and construction.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Prior to today, NAMA provided a business update to the committee. Clearly, NAMA has become one of the biggest residential delivery providers. One figure on page 9 jumped out at me. The number of units for which NAMA or its entities has planning permission but are not yet under construction is 6,200. The graphic beside it shows units under construction or with funding approved but 1,100 of...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can Mr. McDonagh give me an example?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (6 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his engagement with Irish Water on the matter of pollution on the south Dublin coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28433/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (6 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average wait time for applications in the foreign births register section; the capacity at which the section is operating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28434/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the instructions or guidance being given to public transport operators regarding persons who are unable, due to a physical or mental illness, to wear a mask on public transport; if he will consider the issuance of a card for those affected in order that they are not unduly discriminated against, in view of the fact Covid-19 will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Engagement with the Minister for Justice (6 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister and her officials for attending and briefing us on this important legislation. My first question is on the development of the Bill more generally, the interaction with other Departments, the state of readiness, and how things are going in terms of drafting. An update would be valuable for everybody and give us a sense of what is happening with other committees. Of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Election of Vice Chairman (6 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for attending the meeting and for the work they have been doing over the summer. I have seen some of them at meetings of the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response. It is very good to see Dr. O'Reardon at this meeting today. I want to focus on dementia and the cost of providing nursing home and long-term residential care services to people with dementia. Some 7,500...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What does Ms O'Connor mean by "more of a business as usual" thing?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is not just about challenging behaviours. The provision of good care for people with dementia is about providing a more proactive, socially focused form of care. Such provision is necessarily more expensive because it requires more day-to-day attention than in the case of somebody with a long-term illness who may be bedridden for a long period. It is not just about challenging...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Do the departmental witnesses have any information on this point?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Am I correct in understanding that the Department and the HSE recognise that the cost of providing dementia care is different from that relating to other forms of residential care, partly because of the social presentation of someone with dementia?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am aware of that and of the recent improvements, which I acknowledge. However, take St. Joseph's in Shankill in my area, which is facing significant funding issues. That is my concern. It is linked to the overall funding structure, the NPTF and the nursing homes support scheme process, and the appeals mechanism relating thereto. In the 17 seconds I have left, I want to distinguish this...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am looking forward to it.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (30 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if persons over 70 years of age will be allowed to renew their driver licences online, as is the case for persons under 70 years of age, in view of the advice to over-70s to limit their social contacts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27460/20]