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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If the Minister of State can do that and give it back to the committee, it would be great. Under A5, €85.5 million was spent in 2022 and that dropped off substantially in 2023 to €59 million. The allocation is now back up to €82.7 million. What was the reason for the drop-off in spending?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is the Minister of State concerned about the estimated €19 billion hole in the NDP? I have asked that of the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, when he has been here previously. He says it will not be as much as that. What would the Minister of State estimate it to be? IFAC says it is €19 billion.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In terms of what the Minister of State has to deliver-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What workforce planning are we doing to make sure we have the number and that expertise?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Have the outcomes from it been measured? What progress has been made on what we need to deliver?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The OPW had five new leases last year for the cost of €8.4 million. We will take it up on another day.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know what the Minister of State is saying but we have to increase the pool. I want to ask him about the 330 leases that we paid €106 million for in rent last year. Is there a plan or strategy in place to reduce the reliance on leased properties? Is it an explicit aim of the OPW to move away from leasing, which is recognised as the most expensive option?

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Last Friday, the International Court of Justice made a historic ruling. It ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. The court said Israel must stop killing Palestinians and causing serious physical and mental harm to them. Israel must also prevent its troops from committing genocide, prevent incitement to commit genocide, allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza and...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I agree with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment that Ireland has done an extraordinary job. The people have done an extraordinary job over recent months and years. Immigration can mean different things. It can mean people from Great Britain living and working here under the common travel area arrangements or people...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Legislative Programme (30 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 72. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3504/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am coming back on this again to the Minister because too many of the people who are on the Minister's list for 26 months do not have that length of time, unfortunately. Will the Minister please look at this to prioritise people, especially those people who have cancer or are terminally ill? Will he please do that, even from a humanitarian perspective? It has to be done. We cannot sit...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I put it to the Minister that the warmer homes scheme is not a priority. The reason I say this is because the pre-works take eight to ten months, the survey takes 14 months, the works completed take 24 to 26 months and the post-works BER assessment takes two to three months. I appeal to the Minister, particularly with regard to people on the warmer homes scheme waiting list who are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (25 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline any engagement he has had with ComReg about improving the 4G signal in Mayo; and the progress to date. [3387/24]

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion. I thank the thousands of people who have taken the time to email and call my office. I thank everyone who has taken to the streets to push and to drive an Irish stance on this issue. We have wanted to have a collective stance as a nation, sending out a very clear message. That public pressure and activism is needed now more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I really appreciate that Chair because I am not a member of this committee, as he knows. I welcome the witnesses here today, particularly Eamon from Belmullet. I will ask a couple of quick questions together. We have been fighting for a long time for the fair distribution of quotas. What rationale has the Minister given for not addressing the fact that 95% of the fishing fleet is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That was negligence on the part of the Minister in not making the fund available.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to the Exchequer of an increase of 1.5% or €750, whichever is greater, for all public sector workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3230/24]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for that. I will start with Vote 10 on the Tax Appeals Commission. It deals with large and very complex legal cases against some of the wealthiest and most powerful corporations in the State. Naturally, the corporations wish to pay as little tax as possible and employ very competent and large legal teams in doing that. In 2021, there was a quantum of €4.2...