Results 1-18 of 18 for cork speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...some of the difficulties TDs, including me, hear about in their constituencies. It is important we have a continual focus on the management processes of these initiatives. The HSE has reported that in Cork and Kerry, there are currently 8,293 people receiving the home support service with over 33,000 hours of support being provided. Within Cork Kerry Community Healthcare, I am told 75%...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: .... As the Senator has pointed out, there are many situations where that happens but where access to the drug is more restricted. We know that during the recent spike in overdose cases, in Dublin and Cork in particular, naloxone has saved lives. In many cases it was administered before emergency services arrived on the scene. The Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, is keen to ensure that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Provision (13 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...on this matter, noting that, in line with the Affordable Housing Act 2021, responsibility for the administration of affordable housing schemes rests with the local authority concerned, in this case Cork County Council. Kinsale is an absolutely place but it is not just for people who can afford very expensive sites or houses. Ireland is for everybody and Kinsale is certainly for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Provision (13 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...to seeing the development of the site and the advertisements this time next year, and I am sure we will both keep an eye out to make sure the timeline is met. I look forward also to visiting west Cork and seeing with the Senator the opportunities that may be there for the vacant property refurbishment grant. As Minister of State with responsibility for credit unions, I am keen to see how...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...urge Senators to reflect on that in terms of their contributions for the future. On film relief, I thank Senator Lombard for raising this issue. I will look into the question of geographic distribution more broadly. I assume that excellent films are made in Cork South-West and that it should not necessarily be excluded. I will look into that for him and I thank him for raising the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...further and to cater for increased demand. The strategic review of general practice will examine a comprehensive range of issues, including GP capacity services in rural areas, such as west Cork, and identify that change is needed for a better GP service in the future.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...in Dublin is perfect. I come from Dún Laoghaire where we have a very Victorian water system that has many complications, but we do not suffer from the same ongoing issue as the people of east Cork suffer in this regard. I will not set out Uisce Éireann's primary function to provide clean, safe drinking water to customers to a Deputy who is representing constituents who have not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (4 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Deputy Buckley for raising the issue of providing safe drinking water in east Cork. I ask him to forgive the fact that it is me taking it rather than a line Minister. If the latter were the case, the Deputy might receive a more direct response. I appreciate the Deputy’s concerns for the communities to which he referred. As he is more than well aware, this is a very...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...There has been an extension of insurers which have been working with local authorities in regard to community events and festivals. I will speak to the Deputy directly on the particular issues in Cork South-West to see if there is anything further that can be done there. The State has not intervened in the insurance market as a consequence of the European insolvency directive which...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (4 May 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...in the Dublin city local authority area were reported as vacant, which is very low, having regard to the normal turn in the market. Similar low rates existed in particularly high areas of demand, such as Cork city with 2.6%; Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown with 2%; Fingal with 1.7%; Galway city with 2.4%; and Limerick city and county with 2.5%. They are lower than what a market should be. In...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...two decades and how we provide for our economic, energy and employment sustainability throughout the south west. There are so many other benefits to this proposed project. It would connect Cork and Rosslare much better and directly benefit the towns of Carrigtwohill and Midleton, which the Deputy is much more familiar with than me. The improvement to the network would enable more...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...with the CAMHS service for their autistic children. The timing is excellent. This happened last week in the committee room next door. Karen O'Mahony is the CEO of the Rainbow Centre in Cork, which is a truly excellent centre for autistic children. It does a lot of private fundraising and genuinely helps parents through a load of a different issues. Ms O'Mahony has a son who is 16 and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My question concerns a two-year-old boy in Cork who came to my attention because of an initiative I am doing around the cost of having children in long-term hospital care. The boy's urethra is in the wrong place and I cannot understand what the delay is in providing surgical treatment for him. May I come back in, a Cheann Comhairle, after the Minister has responded?

Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...Dublin Coroner's Court returned a verdict of death by misadventure in the case of these ten tragic deaths. The report published by the Ombudsman for Children last week highlighted a specific issue with Cork County Council but the read-across from the report on broader, systemic issues is of importance. The Office of the Ombudsman for Children has recommended that local authorities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Future of Ireland: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: .... One of the issues discussed by this committee was the engagement between the universities, which appeared to be engagement between the universities around the Border rather than in Belfast and Cork. It would be really interesting to have a citizens' assembly on a county basis, thus forcing counties throughout the country to engage with each other and at an early stage. My comments are...

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: ..., 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 have greater friendships with...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to discuss some of the experiences within the airports, particularly Dublin. Other members will focus on Shannon and Cork. I am interested in the number of people who have been coming through Dublin Airport. Obviously, there has been an enormous fall-off in passenger numbers. From what locations have people been coming through the airport in the past couple of months? There are...