Results 161-180 of 3,454 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
- 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 am not in a position to answer that question.
- 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: Perhaps.
- 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: Yes. It is already the case. When the EU budget was agreed last month the Commissioners set out proposals both to provide increased support for humanitarian need – the Deputy must forgive me as I do not have the figure to hand – and also funding to combat antisemitism in civil society. I thought that was a very important reflection on the budget negotiations between 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: It will be as soon as possible. I am subject to the Whip and the House on timing but I am agitating for it to happen as soon as possible.
- 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 hope so.
- 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...
- 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: It is about the extent to which we commit. We have committed €7 million to the EIB and we are providing extra headroom and extra exposure. We are trying to provide a structure under the 2022 and 2023 MFA programmes and make provision for the future. We have committed €7 million and are leaving ourselves some capacity in case we need to go further.
- 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 clarify, I think we have agreed sections 17 and 18. Is that correct, Chair?
- 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: All of the different institutions, the EU, the EIB and in particular the EBRD, have a series of-----
- Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I grew up in Dublin city, went to school and college here and have spent my life working in Dublin. I have lived all over different parts of Dublin and to see a bus burning on O'Connell Bridge and to see the scale of violence and people terrorised in their shops was heartbreaking. I have also worked in youth justice since 2006 and know the Garda youth diversion programme has worked for...
- Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: They are playing both sides of every argument. I, Cormac and all of us needed their help and they were the only people who did nothing to help the community.
- Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Sinn Féin members are playing both sides of every argument. I am not saying this politically. I am saying this because we lived through it in Ballybrack in July.
- Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We needed your help. You were on the ground, had a strong local presence and did nothing to help. I will never forget it.
- Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If I may, I will take 30 seconds to put the pages back in order, as I have been asked loads of questions during Senators' contributions, and I want to try and keep the right order. Forgive me but this is a genuine effort to respond to what Senators have said. I thank those Senators who made a contribution. I have taken a note of their points and I will try to respond specifically and...
- Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is nothing Sinn Féin does-----
- Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There is nothing Sinn Féin does to contribute to the building of a single private home or to the creation of a single private tenancy. It wants public homes-----
- Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----on public land, but it talks to everybody-----
- Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----as though it would solve their problems but it will not solve a single tenant's problem, because it will push more and more landlords out.
- Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Senator's party will not serve a single person who wants to buy a home in this State, nor will it create a private home or a private-----
- Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I, and others, therefore, will vote for this legislation-----