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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of the UK's Illegal Migration Act 2023 on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Corrigan for his opening statement. I have two quick questions. If this can be done in the way it has been done, and it is repugnant to the international and legally binding agreement that is the Good Friday Agreement, what else can be done to undermine that agreement? The situation poses that question. Would a bill of rights or a charter of rights, as were provided for in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of the UK's Illegal Migration Act 2023 on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Corrigan for that. One thing the committee can do here, not just specifically in regard to this Bill, is to ask the Irish Government to put additional focus on the bill of rights and the all-island charter of rights. Some good may come out of the awfulness of this, and Mr. Corrigan also mentioned the legacy Bill in that context. I thank him for that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Kinnane for his opening statement. First, what was the rationale in 2021 for setting the ELS at 3% of the core current expenditure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If the ELS was set at 3% in 2021, why was it then reduced to 2.4%?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Last year, social protection had lower than anticipated expenditure. That was €300 million, so it was €300 million of a clawback and this year, it was €500 million. I cannot get a satisfactory explanation as to how the figure of €500 million was come at. We just have not had an explanation as to why it changed. Last year it changed by €300 million and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am trying to understand better what the process is.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am trying to get the explanation for this. Basically, when Mr. Kinnane had the engagement with the Departments, one would imagine that, because of high inflation and all of that, they would go the other way rather than cutting it back down. Is that a technical decision, a political decision or a combination of both? How does it land?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: At what point did the witnesses become aware of the fact that €500 million was overestimated across all of the lines?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It was €717 million the year before.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 148. To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding the appointment of an independent chairperson to the sodium valproate inquiry; the reason why a chairperson has not been appointed to date; when he expects the chairperson to be in place and for the inquiry to begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50139/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The €500 million as opposed to the €300 million.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I get that process and everything else. Regarding the Department of Health, there is a reference to €708 million. Last year, the figure was €896 million. Would that be communicated by the Department to the Minister for Health? When would it be done? Considering that we have had high inflation, and because it had increased so much, the figure just does not add up. You would...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What year was that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I particularly wanted to be here because of Ms and Mr. Staunton. I think it was in 2011 that I met Rory in Westport, County Mayo. I can relate to everything Mr. Staunton says. I thank everybody for sharing their stories today. I think this is a game-changer in terms of how we approach this. Mr. and Ms Staunton said they had never heard of sepsis. We cannot now say that as legislators. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am thinking of something that need not completely come under the shared island initiative. There could be contributions from both sides for an all-island institute. We can look at this, so everybody across the island, not just every child, would have the same treatment and there would be a consistency of messaging.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On a scale of one to ten, where are we in terms of sepsis awareness?

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I commend all the people who gathered in Ballina on Sunday. It was not lost on those in attendance that it is the ancestral home of Joe Biden. The response of European leaders to the onslaught on Gaza and to the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians is a failure they will have to explain to future generations. It makes a mockery of the much-claimed European values. When I look at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I remind Deputy Durkan that it is not only the Opposition but all the Government parties' county councillors and backbench Deputies throughout the country who are critical of this funding and were critical of this budget. It was a shock to so many people, be they staff, patients or the wider public. Not since 2017 have we seen a lower level of additional funding being allocated to health....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is what I am trying to get at. Last year, that figure was €254 million, the year before that it was €311 million and the year before that it was €149.1 million but we had the Covid pandemic at that time. Before that again, it was €643 million and it was €554 million in 2019, €269 million in 2018 and €266 million in 2017. Why was the...