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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Access to Higher Education (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve access to education for persons with disabilities and members of the Traveller community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37861/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in direct provision that have availed of the support scheme since changes were made in each year and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37862/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of TU designation applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38101/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (24 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 742. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is possible for the processing of a passport with a stamp 1 for a person (details supplied) to be prioritised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38653/20]

Combating Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am confident I am not the only Deputy who has seen the reports and been contacted with great concern about the sharing of online images of women and girls. More and more information is emerging about that. We have not seen it to verify it yet. However, the practice of publishing intimate images without consent is a major problem in Ireland today. The effect on the victim is one of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming today. I want to raise two issues. First, the temporary wage subsidy scheme and how it applied to people who employed childminders in their homes. I had two queries this week about people who employed a childminder in their home. During the first period of restrictions from March to June, the childminder was not able to come to work and they wanted to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I can see that. That is the reason that came back to them but from their perspective they were hearing that it is to maintain a link with an employee and to make sure that nobody is put out by the fact that there have been changes in circumstances. When those mistakes are made in good faith, particularly where there is an obvious alternative in that they could have put them on the pandemic...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would think it is a very small number.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can I come back to Mr. Cody on that? People have never faced these issues before and the documentation from Revenue and other sources is complex. The purpose of the scheme is to provide support and assistance to people who are in extremely stressful difficulties in their households and businesses at a time of a pandemic. Mr. Cody has intimated that twice in terms of their failure to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that but there have been a number of cases that, through quiet representations, I and other Deputies have managed to get reconciled. It is a question of tone and how we speak to people who have made genuine errors and are now in difficulties on foot of those. I want to raise one other case with Mr. Cody. It concerns a gentleman who made his payroll submissions by paper. Is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: He has been excluded on foot of that. I am very happy to send Mr. Cody the details because it would be wonderful to get these issues reconciled.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Cody.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 301. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the roll out of a potential vaccine against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37469/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 309. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen gay men's health services as a priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37506/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Further and Higher Education Sectors: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I know very little about this subject but I have one question for the witnesses. Professor O'Néill just spoke about the phenomenal scale of the research at Magee campus. We have such good universities throughout this island. I have observed some changes in the last 20 years or so. I went to college with a lot of students from the North. The change in the number of A levels required...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Further and Higher Education Sectors: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Listening to the contributions, a great deal of that is students who live along the Border going to universities on one side or the other. However, it is about the rest of the island and students from Belfast studying in Cork or Dublin and collaborations involving Cork and Magee or others. This committee and the work of the Good Friday Agreement is about building better relationships and...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ireland was fined for its delay in transposing the fourth directive. Is transposition enactment or commencement? When is commencement anticipated? What is the relationship between the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Finance? Section 26 refers to the Minister for Justice. Given that the Minister for Finance also has a role in this, what interplay between the two Departments is...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is the timeline for commencement? How many statutory instruments will be introduced? Will it be three or 20? Is there a plan envisaged for this, with a final date? Is transposition completed when all of the statutory instruments have been published? I appreciate that there has been a delay for obvious reasons. What is the plan?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is obvious but the legislation can be dealt with in Government time. Thereafter, in the Departments, what is the plan for commencement?