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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have another question relating to the Environmental Protection Agency and its interplay with Irish Water. My area is Dún Laoghaire and we have a significant issue with ground wastewater pollution and its impacts there. We see it especially when there is heavy rainfall. I have been following up with Irish Water. What is the role of the EPA in following up with these ongoing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is very helpful.

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Last night I sat still, writing these words and struggling to decide what to say to describe this report of the women who came before me and the rest of us and of the lives they and their children lived. I fought to find the words until my small son came and kissed me goodnight in his pyjamas. I knew then that the only way to approach this trauma of motherhood was to speak in that way. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if plans are in place to compensate the time lost for children in the ECCE scheme due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2131/21]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to speak again about clarity regarding the vaccines. We have reached the point in this pandemic where people are under stress like never before. At the beginning, we did not know what Covid-19 was and we did not know how bad a virus it was. Now, however, we do know that information. We all now know people who have contracted this virus, who have been seriously ill and who have been...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Having been in my seat, the Minister will appreciate how difficult time and the management of time is for backbenchers. If this situation is as the Minister has said, we still do have a certain amount of information. We can provide information to people on the basis of the information we do have. I prefaced my remarks by recognising that we would get more vaccines and not less, that we...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Schools Building Projects (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied); the status of the planning application by the school; the projected timeline for the tendering and construction process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44944/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Schools Designation (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process for setting up a new school; the way in which a particular area is identified; the timelines in place to ensure a timely delivery of a school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44945/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans in place to ensure the high numbers of youth unemployment are reduced as Ireland comes out of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1770/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Employment Data (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 606. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider the establishment of a working group within his Department to examine the impact of the motherhood gap in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1769/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 1055. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise the roll-out of vaccinations to secondary school teachers under the Covid-19 vaccine allocation strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1649/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 1085. To ask the Minister for Health if he will classify general practitioners as front-line healthcare workers within the second vaccine allocation group under the Covid-19 vaccine allocation strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1767/21]

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with Deputy Kenny in that we had a detailed discussion on this on Committee Stage. We are aware that the offence is prosecuted and is being prosecuted by the Garda under harassment legislation at present. I agree with the general point on getting the Bill as right as possible. On the previous amendment, the Bills Office has been able to insert additional amendments. A Labour Party...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State and Deputy Howlin for all their work on this Bill. I, like many others, have spoken with Safe Ireland, the Rape Crisis Network and all the other groups involved in helping us refine and develop this legislation brought forward by Deputy Howlin. He really pushed it through and I congratulate him on it. I hope the Minister of State will be able to accept...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming today. I will focus on the complaints process in general in the annual report. I find it interesting in the context of working with a different group of people but all of us as Deputies work with people who have problems of different natures. Some of those problems we can resolve and others we cannot. We try to resolve some of them but some are not...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fine from an assistance perspective but I can imagine somebody, for example, bringing an employment complaint within an organisation and although it is dealt with by a different organisation, it would still be intimidating or difficult. For example, what is done on the human level? Do people proactively meet the complainants or is the process done over the phone? What caring steps...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is not person to person.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It would happen in a meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is much more difficult by phone. Phones and email feel much more remote.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Some of these matters are difficult and personal contact helps. When I look at the feedback, it is extraordinary with any survey to get 98% positive feedback. There are issues of bias and self-selection. If I did a survey of the café around the corner or Eir's customer service, I would never see a 98% positive feedback rate in a spontaneous process. The presentation of that is...