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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is it the case, therefore, that if you put the cost of disability on top of that it would be much larger?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does the ESRI intend to do further analysis in terms of the elderly and disability?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In the context of the budget and disposable income, what people have in their pockets and what they will get for what they spend is the bare bones of it. Dr. Doorley stated that purchasing power in 2024 is now lower, with larger losses for middle-income households. I ask her to expand on that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The top deciles are unchanged, the very bottom decile gains and those in between lose. In light of the amount of money that has been spent, that could be cited as a failure. If prices do not come down next year - we are looking at inflation next year - will we need even bigger one-off payments to protect people from poverty? This obviously causes uncertainty and distress for individuals...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Dr. O'Toole may wish to submit an answer to my next question to the committee. This relates to the national development plan, NDP, which is the multi-annual plan. As the multi-annual plan, it is important that we take inflation and economic growth into account. For example, the EU multi-annual financial framework is a seven-year budget. The EU institutions in negotiation always provide...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I do not think it covers that. Dr. Doorley may not have an answer for us now. When we get the answer back we will have analysis there.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that. It would be useful to the committee in terms of our assessments.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could something like this enable the facilitation of a product that would support the families and homeowners who are impacted by pyrite and mica? At the moment, the shortfall in the grant for what is needed for rebuilding and all of that is falling very short. I hear from many families who are under pressure because they cannot get facility from the banks. Would what we are doing here...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I absolutely understand. My reading of it is that it would facilitate such a provision. We would very much encourage that to be done as quickly as possible.

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...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I ask the Taoiseach to do the direct opposite with regard to the western rail corridor and the line from Claremorris to Collooney. I am a very big advocate of greenways, absolutely 100%, but there are many places we can have greenways. It is not everywhere we can have railways. The infrastructure of a railway both from Athenry to Claremorris and Claremorris to Collooney is absolutely vital...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the amount the capitulation funding will be increased for schools on a per student basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 182. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total projected capital spend in 2023 broken down by core and non-core and what it represents as a percentage share of GNI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45295/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total projected capital spend in 2024 broken down, by core and non-core, and what it represents as a percentage share of GNI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45296/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 184. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total projected capital spend in 2025, and what it is projected to represent as a percentage share of GNI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45297/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (12 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider using unused funding for TBESS to fund grant support for businesses that were badly affected by LPG costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44322/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (12 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Addressing the Ministers present, I first want to welcome the fact that the Government has finally re-profiled the funding from TBESS that has not been drawn down. It is too complicated and did not have enough businesses which needed it. Other such businesses which rely on liquefied petroleum gas, LPG, were completely excluded from this. Will the Ministers provide a scheme for business...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (12 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and let me be helpful to him because what he is saying does not tie up with what I know and, as the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, is here, he will know this also. First, on 21 March, the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, assured me that a grant would be put in place for LPG-reliant businesses. Last month, rural businesses went from being an afterthought to being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (12 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would still ask the Minister to ask the Department to have a look at the data because sometimes things can be got wrong and I think it has been got wrong in this situation. The issue here is not just that the businesses were hit hard by the high energy costs but they were misled by the Government twice, first when TBESS was announced and then when the grant scheme was appointed. Also,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (11 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 221. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1223 of 13 June 2023, if he could provide a breakdown of the €332.2 million spent on 'business as usual' outsource by the HSE in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44319/23]