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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Badly wrong.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is getting wronger, if I may use that word, by a bigger proportion. It was wrong by 23% in 2018, by 58% in 2019 and by 55% in 2020. I can provide the previous figures but I only have three minutes left, so, if Mr. Moloney does not mind, I will move on and come back to it. I refer to procurement. The committee has spent a long time dealing with issues relating to the children's...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Should it have such a role?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is the OGP satisfied with the experience in the context of the children's hospital, for example? Has best practice been followed? Are there things the OGP can influence now that there is a brand new project? Can it influence a better outcome and process than the Committee of Public Accounts has experienced with the children's hospital?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he had concluded his consideration of the report on the living wage from the Low Pay Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24914/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his Department’s work towards tackling harassment and bullying on campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24890/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the future plans his Department has to improve the access to third level education for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24889/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Based on the Minister's answer to Deputy Bríd Smith, could she clarify that every child will get the same technical sexual education, with no opt-outs for parents or schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is that what that means?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is the answer the Minister gave to Deputy Bríd Smith but I am asking a question seeking clarification. Does her answer mean that every child will receive an identical education, with no opt-out for parents or schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No. The Minister gave this answer earlier. She did not answer my question. I asked a simple question requiring a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My goodness. The Minister said a number of times to Senator Warfield that she has been a Minister for only two years and has been doing all the work mentioned in that time. She has been a Minister for just short of two years. When I asked my first parliamentary question on this subject, which I believe was in July 2020, I got a general response. I was happy enough with that at the time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Minister gave me a response relating to the junior cycle consultation in July 2020. How long will the public consultation last?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How long?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is fine. The Minister says it is very easy to understand. I have been working on this for two years now and I actually find it very difficult to understand exactly what the timelines and the differences are. The Minister and I have a difference of interpretation on this. She has her view and I have mine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Correct. That is why I have asked the Minister in a number of parliamentary questions-----