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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...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 everybody, and it is important that there be affordable housing there and that everybody can enjoy living there as much as anywhere else. The...

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...and he has put enormous effort into two things in the past two weeks, the first of which was the early achievement of the loss and damage fund and the scale it was achieved at. It was one of Ireland's priorities for COP to try to support small island nations. The Deputy correctly identified those countries as not having contributed to the climate damage we are experiencing, but which...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...the section 481 tax credit. It is a change that has long been supported by the sector. The increase is something that we should think about as we look at the continued development and, even more so, the resilience of the creative film sector. We want Ireland to remain an attractive location for this sector. We want to produce high-quality films and we want to be known for that....

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

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Seanad: Budget 2024 (Finance): Statements (10 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...needs to go if he or she wants to buy a home. I hate doing this, but Senator Warfield referred to homelessness and rising house prices and rents. He will be, of course, aware that house prices have gone up by 10% in Northern Ireland in 2022, rents went up 9.2% last year and there were, very unfortunately, more than 4,000 children in temporary accommodation as of January 2023, an increase...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...counties. Geography is a major challenge for the group because the population is dispersed and rural, with approximately one sixth of the national population being spread across one third of the land area of the State. The combined budget for the hospitals under the remit has risen from €795 million in 2018 to more than €1 billion in 2023, an increase of more than 35%....

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...the people of east Cork have had to put up with in recent years. That involves a major upgrade of the water treatment plant. A contractor has been appointed to undertake the design and construction of the plant. Land has been acquired and a planning application was submitted in January. Planning permission was approved by Cork County Council in May. However, following the statutory...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Apr 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...cliff edge for the temporary measures already in place. The Government has acted repeatedly and on a significant scale to address the cost-of-living challenge we have experienced. Over the past year, Ireland has experienced a broad based surge in inflationary pressures, leading to higher prices for households and businesses alike. The key driver of these pressures has obviously been...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Schemes (22 Mar 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...sector pressure and the demand for cost rental will continue to expand. Cost rental is a new form of social housing delivery that we have prioritised. We have legislation in respect of it. The Land Development Agency has been tasked with developing and rolling it out with all the approved housing bodies. I would have thought that a measure such as this, which complements existing...

Housing for All Update: Statements (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...by Savills which says the planning framework is out of date. I have to question some of these comments by property interests in that regard. I hear these questions about whether it was appropriate to dezone lands, much of which were on floodplains, and to concentrate activity in areas of the city. I think there is something of a value play going on in that sector at the moment, and I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of land that his Department has made available for modular housing as part of the Governments emergency response to the Ukrainian housing crisis; the proportion of that land that is designated as Housing for All land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48306/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...commercial effects and are broadly financial decisions. The same gender divide that Ms Phelan mentioned was replicated in that context. For example, I recall meetings on the establishment of the Land Development Agency, which is a huge multibillion euro project that is capable of providing significant financing. There were 25 to 30 representatives around the table and I recall being the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...report on Arbour Hill, one can see the effect of a doubled-up bunk being in a single cell with a toilet, with no screen between the toilet and the lower bunk. Prisoners report trying to use the toilet on the landing for each other's dignity. These are ongoing very visible and obvious problems that have to be addressed, especially where there are not separate sanitation options. With...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (10 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...of the relatively small numbers of people here now, but that is going to increase over time. The cross-departmental work is going to be crucial to that. Every effort that can be made to activate land use, accommodation and temporary shelters is a big part of that. I welcome the Minister's comments and I thank him for his work.

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...over time, our energy security into the future and how we can contribute to an energy solution, not just for ourselves but also for Europe. In particular, we need honesty on the risk of this land war and information war to our economy, our people and the European economy and people and on how realistic it is to expect to be insulated from that. There also needs to be an honesty from...

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...criminal gangs or rogue states. All of these things are linked and how we manage social media amplification of dissent is very important, never more so than at this time, when there is not only a land-based war but an information-based war going on right across Europe and, as we have seen, right across western democracy for the past ten years.

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...and add my opposition to what is the relentless and illegal expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Similarly, the practice of forced evictions, demolitions and relentless encroachment into other lands is wrong, illegal and destructive to the opportunity for peace. I have visited the West Bank, as I have visited Israel. I have seen this, as other Deputies have described, in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...;n Laoghaire for the people who need it. I know the families, as does Deputy Boyd Barrett, who need to move into different types of accommodation right across our constituency. There is a finite amount of land that can be developed. There is sea on one side of the constituency. It is an urban area. There is a need to build upwards to accommodate the growing population of people who...

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: ...for this Private Member’s Bill. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, for being here this afternoon. I appreciate the encouragement and support of the National Women's Council of Ireland and Women for Election, which are supportive of this legislation. The current Article 15.11.1 of the Constitution reads: “All questions in each House shall, save as otherwise...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I, too, am thankful for the opportunity to contribute to these important statements today. They come at a moment of huge sensitivity for the island as we solemnly remember the victims of Bloody Sunday in Derry. It is also a sensitive time for the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and, it should be said, for the conduct of our co-guarantor of that agreement in relation to legacy...