Results 1-20 of 3,462 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (23 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you, Chair, and I thank Senators for the invitation to be here with them for this introductory session. I am delighted to work with them and both I and my officials, whom I know the committee has met in private, really look forward to working with them constructively. I also know that the committee has met twice with my predecessor, the Minister, Deputy Peter Burke. I want to formally...
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (23 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I join the Chair in complimenting the work Senator O’Reilly has done at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and in all his previous work in that body. I was in Strasbourg last week for a meeting of the Committee of Ministers. It was wonderful to see the Parliamentary Assembly represented there by the current president. It is such a hugely significant body because of...
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (23 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, sure.
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (23 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would be very happy to, and I thank the Chair. I am very happy to come back in again before the summer. What I would ask is that we communicate. The committee can be quite specific and tell me exactly what it is doing so that I can do a specific body of work with the relevant Departments. This is not something I can do out of my head and I cannot know everything about every Department,...
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (23 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do not have the date yet. That is partly because June is absolutely crazy as we come towards the end of the Belgian Presidency. There are many different moving parts, including the European Council meeting, the General Affairs Council meeting, and the intergovernmental work, particularly on preparation for Ukrainian accession. I do not know what my diary is like, but I will work with the...
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (23 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree.
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (23 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How do you do it?
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy got his answer.
- Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am delighted to be here to mark Europe Day and to speak to the many benefits we have felt through our membership of the European Union. Today is also an opportunity to reflect on how far we have come over the past half century. This afternoon, I will speak to the transformative effect EU membership has had on our country, the benefits accrued through previous waves of enlargement for all...
- Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Acting Chairperson. I appreciate that because I wish to respond as best I can to the excellent debate and the contributions that have been made. Members will forgive me if I jump from one issue to another but it will be in an effort to respond to what they said. I will start with Senator Higgins simply because, respectfully, that seems to be the most logical response. What...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is unclear to me, because I did not have time to check, and this is why I am posing the question, whether the Deputy voted for or against the budget in which we gave not just another tax cut to working families but the third successive tax cut. Cumulatively, these lifted 220,000 working people out of the upper tax bracket. Perhaps, then, if we extend the measure this year we will be able...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Forgive me, I do not have the voting records in front of me but I do not recall whether Deputy O'Donoghue voted for or against this year's budget, in which Fine Gael and the Government introduced yet another tax decrease for working families, in particular a targeted----
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A tax decrease.
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will just talk again because he has no manners.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Recycling Policy (27 Feb 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate Deputy Tully raising this important issue on the practicality of the new return scheme and how it will work for everybody, and where there are difficulties, how they will be addressed and fixed. This scheme has obviously been in development for a number of years. To inform the design of the scheme, the Department undertook two public consultations in 2020 and 2021 on how it...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Recycling Policy (27 Feb 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It seems obvious.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Recycling Policy (27 Feb 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy must forgive me that I do not have more detailed information on the consultation that took place in advance of this scheme being introduced. It would appear to me to be a totally obvious and natural thing to consult disability groups. That may have happened. I cannot answer regarding the number that are accessible, but there are more than 2,300 return points operational from 1...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with the Deputy. It is important to highlight that notwithstanding that this is the highest number in all the different regions, we are still not meeting the need. While we recognise that there are recruitment challenges, both for the public and private sector, the emphasis on management of resources and management from the perspective of the user is still very important. An hour a...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (27 Feb 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I might suggest that the Deputy take that up directly with the Minister in the parliamentary party meeting to place priority on it.