Results 41-60 of 676 for at speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with the Deputy. It is important to highlight that notwithstanding that this is the highest number in all the different regions, we are still not meeting the need. While we recognise that there are recruitment challenges, both for the public and private sector, the emphasis on management of resources and management from the perspective of the user is still very important. An hour a...

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: The Department carries out risk assessments at all times throughout all of this process. The way in which it is engaged means that there is a constant risk assessment and a constant attempt to work out the exposure to Ireland. However, it is not possible to work out at this stage what will happen in Ukraine in June next year, never mind in June five years from now, and the extent to which...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is 30% under profile. That is a considerable gap and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is not testing how it is spending. Officials are not sitting down with an engineer and asking what the projects are, which are behind and what is not getting delivered. At the end of the year, as happens at the end of every year in...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will ask one more question if I might. I do not wish to conform to the stereotypes of Dublin versus rural Ireland which are reflected in politicians but I am sure that my colleagues from County Clare will in fact ask plenty of questions of Shannon Group as well. My question is on the PPE transit work that was done at an early stage. I ask Mr. Gray to talk us through the work that his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Agreed. It is the HSE's responsibility to do so. We can put forward suggestions but, at the end of the day, the HSE has the clinical expertise and at least in theory, the management expertise. It is the HSE's responsibility to collate and co-ordinate that and delivery it for parents. The likes of the Minister of State and I try to come up with practical suggestions with no clinical or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There should be no question of it becoming contingent on there being a problem. It is fine to have a baby at home for a year. That is great but there are people who might like to work a little at the same time. I would not like to get to the point where people might think this is the only way. It would be a bit like breastfeeding, where if someone is not doing it there is guilt and...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The redevelopment of some of the other projects is really very important. The Cloverhill remand project comes to mind. It is not the Minister of State, but I would be worried if the Department was not able to progress more than one project at a time. Clearly, one can be engaged in design of one project while completing the fit-out of Limerick Prison, which is very considerably advanced...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will take this opportunity to reflect on vacancy. I acknowledge the great difficulties faced by many people and families at this moment. The need to address vacancy and the housing crisis is a priority objective of the Government. Senators are aware that in Housing for All the Government has set out a suite of incentives to try to encourage the reuse of properties and increase the supply...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is very important to know that. At the end of the day, the cost is being passed on, whether a judicial review is taken or not. If a risk premium is being built into the financing of a project in anticipation of such a review, which I again say people are entitled to take, that is a meaningful effect on cost. People are telling us that. It is important the Department be aware of that,...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I got a briefing from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage which anticipated it being commercially viable by 2037 and that has been pulled back repeatedly. I might put this question to the Department. I am hearing from Irish-backed operators who are operating throughout Europe that Ireland is not ready in terms of grid. It is not ready in terms of strategy. It is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes. Mr. Herrick states at the beginning of his full submission: "At present, the judicial appointments system in Ireland does not align with best practice as outlined by international instruments on the independence of the judiciary." That is a big statement from the ICCL, which, as Mr. Herrick and I have discussed several times, I regard as an important institution for this State. That...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On the gender pay gap information Act, I am looking at note 5 of the accounts. It is so basic. I was looking at the accounts of the Peter McVerry Trust, for example. It gives much more detail about the profile of the organisation and gender or the organisation. I am curious about how and when we will get to a point where we can see a better profile of the organisation in terms of...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I might answer some questions about Ursula von der Leyen more broadly, because it was the feature of many contributions. The then Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, made clear his disappointment and the fact that her statements at that time, in the very beginning in October, did not reflect the Irish position and went too far. They did not represent the competence that she as President of the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that. The Department has visibility of where the money is going, but it does not sound like there is a conversation about whether that is enough spending, whether it is correct and whether it will deliver at the end of the year. If there is constant visibility, is spending of 30% under profile acceptable? Are other Departments under profile? Which Departments have spent above...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for attending and for all the work they have been doing in recent months. We all appreciate it. My point, on Dublin, has arisen in various contexts, including at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts that I attended, so I wish to be excused if I am repeating anything. I want to focus on the current position in Dublin. When Dr. Glynn appeared before the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is lovely to see Mr. Herrick and I thank him for coming in. On his final point, gender imbalance on the courts has been substantially remedied by political intervention since 2011. That is notwithstanding what he said about the professions - a point well made, particularly when we look at the proportion of women becoming senior counsels every year. However, there was political...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Mark Durkan (29 Sep 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Durkan for joining. Although it is difficult within the confines of the agreement at the time, I want to better understand the mindset on the difference between achieving an agreement and knowing that you are achieving an agreement essentially on constitutional and political structures and having a sense that things were being left over, as it were, for example, legacy or the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (22 Sep 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: An interesting point will be interplay between the retention of the deduction and any other changes that Government introduces with regard to energy supports more broadly and how that works out for individuals. It is extraordinary how external events impact behaviour in a collective way, whether it is the change to remote working and how much that has been of benefit to people, particularly...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...I have a response for the Deputies around the provision of emergency surgical services. However, I will say I have an 18-month-old child who required emergency orthopaedic surgery. We turned up at Crumlin hospital, which is a paediatric centre of excellence, on at Saturday night at 11 p.m. The registrar and surgeons do not come in until 7 a.m. the following morning. I am not saying it...