Results 101-120 of 217 for justice speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...and others do in that section. To my mind, it is a quasi-judicial office of significant importance where one is making decisions about children's lives and whether they go through the criminal justice system, but also whether they are getting appropriate welfare-based interventions An Garda Síochána has identified they need. I have a concern in this regard. This is important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is very difficult for a Member of the Oireachtas to ask too many searching questions about the operation of the courts and the administration of justice lest we step over the separation of powers. As Dr. Saidléar has mentioned, partners are in dialogue with the Judicial Council on some of these issues. We all know this and we keep talking about it. We are having the same...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Local Community Safety Partnerships (29 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the way the pilot community safety partnerships are progressing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16049/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Procedures (29 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to improve the operation of the criminal trial process for victims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16050/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...Service. They both mentioned how people tend to come from very specific deprived areas. I return to research I have mentioned at previous committee meetings. In 2007, the Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development assessed the backgrounds of young people appearing before the Children Court. The 400 young people who were assessed at the court at that time were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...my question, which I know was discussed, about the mechanism for discussing wording and the policy in that regard. Obviously, the Department has a strong role in policy, and the Department of Justice has done some of this work in the past. I am aware the Minister is doing a review to see what the current position is. Ultimately, however, similar to the conversation we had in our last...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 767. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current situation in regard to the use of quarantine measures for new committals to prison including whether such measures continue to be used; the length of time that persons are currently held in quarantine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14644/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...for the opportunity to raise this issue, which I will continue to do throughout the year in an effort to maintain the momentum of remembering these women, recognising that the Minister for Justice and her Department are doing the work from a policy perspective. Much of this is about changing attitudes and we cannot do that if we allow this issue to slip off the front pages and into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank all of the witnesses for coming in. When listening to the stats from the IPRT, I was struck by how much they reminded me of research published in 2007 by the Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development in regard to young people in the Children Court. The study looked at 400 children in the Children Court at that stage. Although the language in it is slightly dated, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: While I stand to be corrected, I believe the restorative justice programme for young offenders was suspended by the GYDB precisely because of the difficulty with the interaction with the victims directive. Can anybody confirm if that is the case? No. I think it was about the protection of the child - the victim. I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their contributions.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (17 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the work taking place to make the streets safer for everyone, particularly women, from lighting to increased Garda presence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8532/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (17 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her legislative priorities in relation to tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8531/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (15 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken to meet the commitment to have citizenship applications processed within a year; the number of additional staff that have been hired or relocated to assist; the way processes have been streamlined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7666/22]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Vótáil Pharlaiminteach Chianda), 2020: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Remote Parliamentary Voting) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...Houses by providing for the most natural of life's events. This was particularly relevant at the time of the introduction of this Bill in this House on 8 December 2020, when my Fine Gael colleague, the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, had announced her pregnancy only three days before. As the first woman sitting at Cabinet level in Ireland to take maternity leave, although it was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (10 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 368. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the criminal justice (community sanctions) Bill; the timeline for its passage through the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7117/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (10 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 369. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to review the Fines Act 2010 and the Fines (Payment and Recovery) Act 2014 to determine if they require amendment to reduce committal rates for defaults on court-ordered fines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7118/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 370. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is tracking the progress of the removal of Covid-19 restrictions in Irish prisons; the details of the restrictions that have been removed across the prison estate and in each prison particularly in regard to the removal of legal and family visitation restrictions in prisons; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (10 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 371. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Government is on track to meet the Programme for Government deadline for the ratification and implementation of the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture within 18 months of the formation of the Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7120/22]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 – Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 – Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...funding is available to support that. Significant work is being done on the new strategy and the link with how services have been covered with Tusla. On a related point in respect of the youth justice strategy and the Garda youth diversion office, one of the big problems over the years has been follow-up with Tusla where a decision is taken not to prosecute a child but to refer him or...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 – Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 – Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...follow up in this regard and ensure that this aspect is resumed as quickly as possible. There is as much need to give and take legal instruction in those family cases as there is in criminal justice cases. It is not possible to replicate the process over Zoom in perpetuity. It is not possible to give advice or take instructions in the same way through that medium. Family visits are the...