Results 161-180 of 3,447 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Hospitality Sector (30 Jun 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I accept that and I am sure that will happen. On the range of supports under the July stimulus and others, questions have been asked regarding the nature of supports provided to businesses. The Government has taken a nuanced approach of trying to provide targeted supports for different-sized businesses and employers first, rather than allocating a blanket cash amount for every business. It...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Hospitality Sector (30 Jun 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish Mr. Cummins and his members well in reopening this week.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the officials for their attendance today. I have some questions for Ms Licken. Culture Ireland acts for abroad have been cancelled. How much money had been allocated for that in this year's budget? Where will that be spent now if artists abroad are not using it? I expect they are not, but Ms Licken might give us details on that. How do we ensure the Arts Council will be able...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: When does the Department expect that will be done?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We are several months into it now.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As I understand it much of Galway 2020 has been cancelled at this point. What is the position with the budget for that and how might it be repurposed at this point?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have a question for Mr. Kelly from Fáilte Ireland. Will Mr. Kelly give us the details in factual form of the cost of the "Ireland, make a break for it" campaign? What is the cost to Fáilte Ireland of designing and implementing it? What is the cost and the aggregated expected return on that?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I ask for a general estimate. Fáilte Ireland has run campaigns in the past. What has been the agency's experience? I appreciate that these are different times.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We will have a look at this campaign and see how it differs, acknowledging that the circumstances behind it are very different.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for the work they have done over the past number of months and their engagement with the Department. The voice of parents is very important at this time and I thank them for everything that they have done. I want to raise one overarching issues and then a few practical issues, if I may. The overarching issue is mental health supports for young people of all ages...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is absolutely right. When Ms Lynch uses the phrase "therapeutic supports", which is featured in the survey, it sounds like it must be something external, expensive and perhaps a bit frightening for those who have not accessed it before. However there is a halfway house, namely, training in child psychotherapy and play therapy provided through the colleges of education or otherwise....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I anticipate a scenario where parents are asked to drop children to school a long time before classes begin. What conversations is the National Parents Council having about how and where children can be cared for between being dropped off and the beginning of lessons?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A partnership approach is also going to be necessary in explaining the new arrangements to children in an appropriate way, using language that recognises their stage of development. That must be done in a consistent way by schools and parents. What conversations have our guests had about that sort of co-ordination and how new arrangements can be communicated to children in appropriate language?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: One issue that has been raised with me relates to the opportunity for cross-curricular learning in different environments. More could be done by taking some of the curriculum outside by conducting physical education through Irish or other things. Children might have to come appropriately dressed for such activities, in tracksuits and not pinafores, as it were. Has there been any discussion...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What about children who are immunosuppressed, or are coming from a house in which someone is significantly immunosuppressed? I do not mind if someone other than Ms Lynch wants to reply.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (2 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Lynch and all our guests for the work they have done in supporting parents over this time.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (7 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 826. To ask the Minister for Health the data from maternity and other hospitals relating to a reduction in the number of preterm births to date in 2020 relative to the equivalent period in previous years; if this has possible significant implications for maternal and neonatal health and related health advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14349/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (7 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fine.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ten minutes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank all of the witnesses for coming in this morning. Mr. O'Connor's professional day-to-day experience is in finding ways to finance and, indeed, refinance Ireland's debt position so that we can have the liquidity to put into supports like the temporary wage support scheme or the pandemic unemployment payment. I am sorry, but I do not know how long he has been in his position.