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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Citizen's Assembly on Gender Equality made three recommendations that centred on the Constitution: to insert gender equality and non-discrimination; to remove the reference of women within the home; and to amend Article 41 to protect family life to make sure that children in the family are not discriminated against whether their parents are married or not. As I said, great work was done...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No. It is very clear that this is going to be the Senator's approach to a referendum about removing the reference to women's place being in the home and about trying to create a principle of non-discrimination. I can see where this is going. It is fine that the Senator chooses his forum, but I do not need his apologies and have never asked for them. I do not question his forum; I simply...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I simply question his consistency. On this notion that men are laying claim to women's places, which I have heard time and again, I am a woman and have worked for women's issues on a range of different issues.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have worked for women's protection across a range of issues, including gender violence and domestic violence. I have read into the records of the Dáil, Seanad and committees the names of every woman murdered since 1997 in different circumstances. Women's Aid-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I assure the Senator that since the gender recognition change in 2015, neither I nor any woman with whom I am personally acquainted has raised the spectre or fact of men coming into women's places in order to attack them. My constituents have not raised it with me either. I assure the Senator that in any circumstances where a man actually wishes to attack a woman, he does not need to dress...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Referendum Campaigns (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Senator should not tell me about protecting women.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On Deputy Nash's point, the Department has met with Irish Equity, Screen Guilds Ireland, Screen Producers Ireland, Screen Ireland and Animation Ireland on several occasions. The Department has reviewed the credit regularly under the tax expenditure guidelines. It was reviewed in 2018 and 2022. In 2015 it was restructured from an investor led credit to a corporation tax credit, following a...

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is a big thing to say.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: But that is the same thing.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In your opinion.

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for bringing forward the motion. I watched much of the committee proceedings on this matter. I was interested in it. The Deputy and I share a constituency adjacent to where much of this work happens and many of the people who live in our constituency are involved in production or work in the industry. It is a matter of great importance to the Deputy and me. For that...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter on behalf of his constituents. In recent years, general practice has had to do more as demand for services, life expectancy and the population have increased. The Government has taken a number of measures to improve the recruitment and retention of GPs, and to increase the number of GPs practising in the State. The 2019 GP agreement provides for...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I mention the locum services and the Deputy highlighted the difficulty in getting insurance. I invite him to bring that to me directly as Minister of State with responsibility for insurance. If there is a systemic issue, I will raise it. I will discuss it with Insurance Ireland and try to find a route for it. It seems that getting locums often involves asking people who have retired to...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, I know. I was not saying there was.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The question of timing is very important, particularly the time patients arrive at a hospital. They can end up with a very long wait until 7 or 7:30 the following morning when the surgical teams come back in. Therefore, if they turn up at 11 p.m., and I have personally experienced this they can either stay until 7 a.m., or they can go home and come back. In my case, I was in Crumlin,...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Very.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I did not intend to read out the email address or phone number because I suspected people were already well aware of them, they would be of little assistance in circumstances where a seven-year boil notice was in effect, and that it probably was not the most efficient way of communicating. If it is an on-off thing, I suggest that an app on mobile phones that everybody is plugged into is a...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What age was the child?