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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will speak as quickly as I can. I wish to highlight the childcare pressures in my constituency. I know of a 41-year-old professional woman who has a four-and-a-half-month-old baby. If she gets a childcare place for her baby in order for her to return to work, it will cost her between €1,200 and €1,300 per month. She is a single mother who gets the one-parent family...
- Irish Corporate Governance (Gender Balance) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Jul 2022)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...to speak on this really important Bill. I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Higgins, on the extraordinary work she has put into developing this comprehensive legislation. It is technically astute and deeply researched. That effort has not just been in the legislative sense; there has been a great deal of associated work, including the comparative international analysis she undertook and...
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jan 2022)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. I thank the Minister for bringing this Bill forward to enable us to discuss it. I also acknowledge Deputy Funchion and her work as Chair of the committee which did such significant work to analyse where and how this Bill should go. She will be returning to the Chamber shortly as she has been here all along. I am not a member of that...
- 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...