Results 7,061-7,080 of 8,276 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Recurring incidents of a similar nature would raise flags.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Breen mentioned earlier that across maternity, there are 26 or 27 cases of cerebral palsy on average. Obviously, there are incidents that result in outcomes other than cerebral palsy. That is not the universe of experience in any sense. Is that not very serious? Those are 26 children and 26 families who are impacted with their lives entirely altered. I am not suggesting this is a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is important, but it does not make any difference to the individual family for whom an intervention three or four hours earlier might have had a very different outcome for the rest of their lives. However, I appreciate the broader point Mr. Breen has made.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are currently available to families with children in hospital; if consideration has been given to placing a social welfare officer on site at children’s hospitals to provide necessary information on exceptional needs payments and carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if further consideration has been given to examination of the thresholds for earning in relation to the qualification for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when regulations for affordable housing will be issued to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48774/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Community Foundation for Ireland (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Senator Currie may go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Community Foundation for Ireland (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: She did ask good questions. That is quite all right.

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How much time do I have? Is it five minutes?

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you for the opportunity to speak on this important strategy. Youth justice is something I have worked on for more than 15 years. In 2007, Emer Meehan and I published The Children Court: A National Study on behalf of the Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development. In it, we profiled the young people who were before the Children Court. I raise the 2007 study because...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply to Deputy Duncan Smith earlier on the maternity question. He mentioned nightclubs, and of course tonight 450 people will be able to go to the Button Factory nightclub. They will have to show proof of vaccination and do an antigen test. There will be CO2 monitoring and good ventilation but no social distancing. Maybe there will be a pregnant lady...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Visa Agreements (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 14. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of humanitarian visas provided to persons in Afghanistan; if he plans to increase the number of these visas provided following requests for additional support such as that from frontline defenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46844/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Family Reunification (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assistance his Department is providing in relation to family reunification plans for Afghans living in Ireland with family in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46845/21]

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I think I am sharing time with------

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Okay. I acknowledge and thank the emergency consular aid team, made up of Irish diplomats in the Army Ranger Wing, who travelled to Afghanistan in the initial days of conflict, a little over a month ago. The contribution they made in getting Irish citizens and their families out safely was crucial. I have parliamentary questions in with the Minister about family reunification and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the commitment to strengthen the mortgage-to-rent-scheme as referenced in the new Housing for All plan; when additional information will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46976/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (29 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 201. To ask the Minister for Health when mental health services, both in the private sector and those facilitated by the Health Service Executive, will recommence fully in-person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46900/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (29 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 202. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health supports his Department is planning to put in place for 2022; the funding to date in 2021 for mental health supports; the way that funding has been allocated and spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46901/21]

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will use my time to discuss the most urgent issue, that of activating consented land, but, listening in my office to the speakers from Sinn Féin discussing how rubbish the Government's Housing for All plan is, I was minded to again pick up that party's submission to the Housing for All document from June of this year. It is a few short pages long. There are seven pages of text with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Maternity Leave (28 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on progress relating to the establishment and implementation of maternity leave for councillors; the interactions his Department has had with councillors and other Departments and State bodies on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46207/21]