Results 1-20 of 75 for going forward speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...be held up by bureaucracy and red tape around this because the people in rural Ireland deserve water as much as anyone else. We need to clear up legacy issues in order for us to be able to move forward. As was referred to earlier on, we cannot have the development of towns and villages, the rural development and community development without having the water schemes. I thank our...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...therapies or supports that are needed. They continuously ask where are the millions of euro that are supposed to be invested for people with disabilities and elderly people. Where is that money going? It is certainly not going to the carers and it is certainly not being used to provide the services to which I refer. Why does it take months for appeals to be dealt with? We go over and...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this motion. It is important. It is timely that we are speaking on it this morning. I, like all other TDs and my colleagues, live in a community in which businesses are struggling. I cannot remember a time when so many businesses were concerned about escalating costs which they just cannot manage. Many are family-owned businesses that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When it comes to the State building social and affordable homes it is very clear now that the targets for 2023 are not going to be met in counties like Mayo. Indeed not a single house was delivered in Mayo in the first nine months of 2023. Another crucial finding of the ESRI report is about the workforce and the need and potential use of the taxation system to redirect construction work....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for the clarification. What would it mean in practical terms for the delivery of housing? I am aware of 30 housing projects in Mayo that are going through the four-stage process. That might sound promising on the face of it, but we know that it usually takes years for projects to get on site and under construction. Will the changes enable Mayo County Council to conduct...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the opportunity today. I was looking forward to this session for months and the information the witnesses can give us. We are excited about the opportunities and what can be done under this programme. I welcome the CEO of Galway Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Kenneth Deery. It shows the huge level of interest. I welcome the people watching online today to see how we can make this...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would first like to thank Deputy Shanahan and the Regional Group for developing and bringing forward this Bill. This is a vitally important area to which this House needs to give more attention. Delivering capital projects is vital as it affects our ability to provide housing, healthcare, transport, connectivity and almost every aspect of the State. It can be the difference between a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (28 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know the Minister of State will agree that this has gone on for far too long. He referred to 17 November. I was told this scheme would start this year. Going forward, from 17 November, with the full information being there, when will it be signed off? When will construction start? There needs to be clear communication with the people of Crossmolina. The Minister of State knows what...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I cannot believe the response the Minister has given this. I really thought that he was going to come in here, listen to what was being said and commit to bring forward a Revised Estimate for health because he will have seen by now the disastrous decisions that were made in the budget, but he did not. Instead, he has come in here to paint a picture that is not the reality on the ground....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...states the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery, and Reform will give statutory consent to the scheme allowing the project team to bring Crossmolina flood relief forward. The people of Crossmolina are still waiting. There is still information going back and forth with regard to this matter. I am also concerned that the timeframe for the scheme will be four...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the service providers to the Gallery this evening and thank them for the great job they do. I thank my colleague, Deputy Tully, for bringing this motion forward. I refer to all the wrongdoing and the wrongs in the budget. This is a really important one and we would not be discussing it this evening if it was not for Deputy Tully. Budget 2024 failed people with disabilities. It...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ..., involving international events and economic forces beyond their control. There is another context for the budget, however, one for which they are responsible, namely, the years of successive Governments failing to address the biggest issues people face. One of the Ministers said that these policies did not happen by accident. He is absolutely right. These policies have constructed...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----but there is the threat to productivity and the threat to competitiveness going forward if we do not invest in our infrastructure. We have, as Dr. McQuinn rightly says, housing and health to deal with and things should be thrown at them because of the impact they will have in the longer term. In terms of regional imbalance, when we look at the European Regional Competitiveness Index...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...to look to the demographic challenges, the challenges with pensions and the challenges with climate change. We also have to do that. I think we can do both of those things in a responsible way going forward. The regional imbalance concerns me a lot because of my own geographic location. It cannot be ignored.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...be contested. I was also interested in Mr. Palmer's comment that the payment services directive 2 is a maximum harmonisation directive, which he states means transposing the regulation cannot go beyond the provisions of the directive. To be clear, does this mean the Government is precluded from bringing in stronger legislation to go further than the existing EU directive? How exactly...

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I acknowledge the work of the Chair of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, Deputy O’Dowd, and Deputy Brendan Smith who is also present. It was a hugely interesting piece of work for us to do as a committee. I thank all the witnesses who gave witness to what it was like for them, the challenges and opportunities they had and the setting out of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Ministers for their presentation. There is consensus about how things need to be managed, going forward, and the responsibilities that brings. I want to check one figure in respect of the core year-on-year increase. If there is €4.3 billion, of which €2.5 billion is already spent in terms of demographics, that leaves only €1.8 billion for core spending.

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...This is not blanket relief as existed before - the relief the Minister championed as recently as 2018 and the relief the Tánaiste called to be increased back in 2015. The proposal we are putting forward is not a reintroduction of the old scheme. It is more targeted and it is temporary. It would be effective in supporting households that face spiralling interest rates in the context...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...a bit concerned that we might start reinventing the wheel. The facts are there. Some 500 Irish students are outside the country studying veterinary medicine at the moment. It is important not to go backwards but to go forwards. We need this issue to be addressed as soon as possible. We need a new veterinary school. The situation cannot be tweaked. We also need an all-island...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I very much welcome this OECD report and look forward to examining it. It is crucial to our economic growth going forward. The national skills input into that will determine how we shape and create the human workforce as we go forward. We also need to be cognisant of the need to join things up. If we are encouraging lifelong education and upskilling of the workforce, we need to look at...