Results 1-20 of 167 for long speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...most important thing. We are struggling with a recruitment challenge. It is important that we have people in this country to be able to meet the need. If we want to have people at home for as long as possible, then we need more healthcare assistants. I am afraid this is linked to questions of migration that come up again and again. This issue is important in highlighting that with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (27 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is for the Minister for Education to make such a determination. The review of the school transport scheme has been going on for a long time. It commenced in February 2021 and was conducted over three phases. I am told that work will begin on planning for a reduction in the distance criteria that the Deputy highlighted from 2025 to 2026, so there is still a ways to go. That work is very...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...the House and the people we represent. A key focus of the Sláintecare reform programme is recognising, facilitating and enabling older people to age well at home and in their communities for as long as possible. Therefore, improving access to home support is a priority for the Government. Since budget 2021, we have provided approximately €230 million in additional funding...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sports Facilities (27 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...announced a €50 million package through the shared island fund to contribute to the construction of a redeveloped Casement Park in Belfast. The allocation will contribute to the realisation of a long-planned sports infrastructure project for Gaelic games.In the more immediate term, it will maximise the opportunity, as the Senator has said, of the joint hosting by Ireland and the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...of a separate urology call rota from general surgery once the new children’s hospital has opened. I agree with the Senator’s sentiment in respect of cost. When you are the parent of a child in hospital for a very long period, you know exactly how important it is and the care that will be provided to children there will be incredibly important. On waiting lists, it is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Perhaps I will not comment on the capacity of the surgeons or indeed the current management team. I will say that in my experience, the longer I am a public representative and engage with the hospital system, the more I know about the value of management processes in delivering for patients, for example in the reduction of some waiting lists. Although some hospitals do not seem to have...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (13 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...the practices of the business. If we can get to a point where more compliant businesses are being audited less frequently or having to draw less attention from Revenue, there is a benefit in the long run for already compliant businesses. I appreciate this is a new measure. It will enhance tax transparency, but it is a new requirement on businesses. I take on board the Senator's broader...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...recommendation requests a report on the potential revenue implications for the State if a 50% limit on deferred tax assets was imposed. As Senators are aware, loss relief for corporation tax is a long-standing feature of the Irish corporate tax system and a standard feature of corporation tax systems in most OECD countries. It recognises the fact that a business cycle runs over several...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...Member of the Houses. It is appropriate that every available lever is deployed to incentivise the use of existing housing stock throughout the country. This includes measures to deter vacancy, alongside supportive measures that Senators have mentioned, such as grants. For this reason, the Minister for Finance announced in the budget that the rate of the vacant homes tax will increase to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (30 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...point of view, to tell insurers that they could do a bit more, but now it is a different proposition because the State is intervening to provide support and putting guidance in place. As long as that guidance is met, the insurers are happier to step into a market where it is a lower risk. I can give other examples from across Europe of where insurance for thatched buildings is more...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...having the review. I have also made this view very clear and plain to the Governor of the Central Bank. It is important that there are timely reviews. It is not acceptable that it takes a very long time to gather data before having a review. It is very important that this is done in a timely way. I expect the Central Bank to be able to do that. It is part of its role. At the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...fully in this initiative, which demonstrates clearly the solidarity of the EU with the people of Ukraine. Ireland recognises the scale of challenge faced by Ukraine in both the short term and long term. I look forward to good engagement on the Bill, recognising it was exempted from pre-legislative scrutiny for the reasons I have outlined. As far as I am aware, neither the Opposition...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...to support its passage into the EU as a member state. It is very important to remember that this is much like the case of Ireland, when there were calls to default and do different things and a long-term profile approach was taken that helped to avoid too much early repayment of the principal amounts. In fairness, that approach reduces the risk of non-payment. We have seen structures...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Deputy Doherty has been finance spokesperson for many years, much longer than I have been involved in the Department of Finance or in this portfolio. He will therefore know a great deal better than I do the institutions such as the EIB, the EBRD and others, and that they have oversight personnel not just working throughout those institutions but on the ground where funds are going to make...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the committee for its engagement and support. This is an important Bill. It is important to focus on the repayment and the exposure of the State, but I remember it is not long ago that the EU was concerned about Ireland's capacity to repay funding that was provided to us in our time of need. We worked hard to make sure it was done, have come out of it well and are now net...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...it should not necessarily be excluded. I will look into that for him and I thank him for raising the point. I thank Senators more broadly for their comments in regard to the increase in expenditure under 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,...

Report of Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motion (23 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----and criticise one way or the other. The State, as the Deputy knows, has had a long-term strategy to divest precisely for that broader reason of not being involved and to have a hands-off approach from the management. However, we have actually had very good success in reducing the shareholding and making sure we have tried to recover as much for the taxpayer as possible. The Deputy...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...with housing. I have always worked very constructively with Senator Warfield on a number of different committees and I am glad to hear him speak about the importance of homeownership because, along with people who want to buy their own homes but are living in their parents, it is not something I hear often from Sinn Féin. As Senator McGahon said, it is important but it is not...

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: .... The member states guarantee would only be called in the event that Ukraine defaults on the repayment of the loans. I recognise that is an important consideration, given that we have no sight of how long this conflict may last. It is important to highlight the risk of that. Ireland's maximum liability under the guarantee is €76 million in total. It is important to recognise...