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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the total allocation and spend on e-Health since 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20081/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the delegation for coming in again. I commend all of the work that is being done. I can see clearly how the shared island unit has evolved and developed in different areas to address different questions and problems. I have no doubt that will continue. A lot of questions have been asked. I have a couple of follow-on questions. An environmental report is to be done on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: All politics is local, but that is a very important project. Will the fact that the Executive is not up and running impact on that? That can be put out to tender and so on without the Executive being up and running, but then we will obviously reach a pinch point if the Executive is not in operation at that stage. Does Ms O'Donoghue have any timeline for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The European Regional Development Fund, ERDF, provides 60% co-funding for projects in regions in transition such as, for example, the west and the north west. Is there a way for the shared island unit to maximise the opportunity that presents? Can funding from the Exchequer and the shared island unit be combined in such a situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am asking about ERDF funding more broadly and about any other innovative projects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It might be something to look at because having to find only the 40% presents opportunities. Obviously, it is addressing the problem of the growing regional disparities and the fact that the region is in transition. Can the Department co-fund with the reconciliation fund in what it is doing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is the PEACE fund open now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is different from the reconciliation fund.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can you get both, though? Can you get some funding from the reconciliation fund and some from the - what did Ms O'Donoghue call it? The civic-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I see opportunities as well in PEACEPLUS when that is open because it will cover the whole island, not just the councils confined to the Border, as used to be the case. The programme will be spread to all local authorities. I want to ask the witnesses about biodiversity. What if a community has a biodiversity project in respect of which it wants to do a twinning with a community in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That would be great. I thank Mr. Duffy. Ms O'Donoghue talked about hydrogen. That is really interesting. We all recognise that we have to tackle climate change on an all-island basis, but we really need the all-island hydrogen strategy to be able to do that, to be able to advance renewables in the way we need and to capitalise on the Atlantic economic corridor. I am really glad about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I commend what is coming from the ESRI, notwithstanding the data gaps that are there. It is excellent. The CSO has put out a call for consultations as to what it might do differently or better. We put the request in through the finance committee and the Committee on Budgetary Oversight that it would have better congruence in respect of the data it is producing with the data in the North so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. There are still gaps there. Has the shared island unit any role to play in the European Court of Human Rights and the different movement there in respect of the British Government's detraction of rights and how we can secure uniformity of rights across the island? Is that something the shared island unit looks at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to share rights across the island.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have taken up a lot of time. I thank the witnesses.

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Good Friday Agreement was a monumental achievement by all involved. It showed courageous leadership and has brought us to a really good place for the past 25 years. One of the shortcomings of the agreement was the failure to have a proper implementation structure. Now, 25 years on, many elements of the agreement are yet to be implemented. I refer in particular to the bill of rights...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I second that.

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.