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Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Before I move to the second round starting with Senator Craughwell, I assure the witnesses that the report will be done before then. It will be out in the next few weeks and all the points RACO raised today will inform the recommendations in it. We may not agree about everything here - we do not; there are a lot of contested opinions about the triple lock - but we are all singing from the...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What will it take to change the culture? In any organisation - we have had it before in banking and everything else - changing culture is most challenging. How does RACO think it can be done? Has there been an examination of how to change culture?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: RACO has the support of the committee in that. I will ask a question about pensions because there is an important point on the occupational supplementary pension. When people are forced to retire at 62, what happens until they reach the age they can avail of the pension?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I can see why that would happen. When we get past this Bill, this is an area we need to do a deeper examination of to try to address it in some way.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will take the point of order but then I will have to move to the next speaker.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Senator for clarifying that. I am going to move on to Deputy Ó Laoghaire. Because nobody had indicated when Senator Craughwell was speaking, I allowed him to speak for a little longer but I ask Deputy Ó Laoghaire to keep his contribution as short as possible so that we can get Deputy Callaghan in afterwards.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their time and for the material which they circulated in advance of the meeting. I thank them for their attendance, contributions and statements. I assure them that they will be reflected in the report the committee will produce in the next two weeks. We will break for five minutes.

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am really glad the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Canney, is here, and the reason for that is the western rail corridor. He has always been committed to it. I commend him on how he worked when in opposition to secure the western rail corridor – first the link from Athenry to Claremorris and then the link from Claremorris to Collooney. Therefore, I do not need to tell him how...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, considering that.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. There is much in his statement that I agree with in terms of the intentions he has to address some of the issues. As always, the proof will be in the pudding in terms of implementation. On the action plan for competitiveness and productivity, the Minister says it is going to be ready in the next couple of weeks. Was it to be ready for the summit which took place...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the summit, is there any room for this committee on that or how do we feed into it? We have the national economic dialogue, for example and there was a good opportunity for the finance committee, which I was on, to feed into that. What is the role of this committee in relation to that summit? There is a lot of expertise in different areas on this committee in terms of business.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is good. I welcome the Minister's confirmation of the reclassification process for the increased cost of doing business and the power-up grants. Many people in my own constituency in Mayo felt they were unfairly left out of those schemes. How much of those grants was left unclaimed?

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is very important in the design of these grants that businesses or whoever they are intended for are involved in their design so we get it right from the beginning. Is there going to be a publicity campaign around the reclassification to ensure there is nobody left behind who might be eligible for them?

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Particularly as we incentivise actions in terms of climate change, I was talking to the Irish Hotels Federation today and they were talking about the restrictions that are put on the sizes. I was struck by the cap on the number of employees for certain businesses. The more emissions you have, the more you want to reduce them by. They should be included in incentives as well. It should not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. People may think this is a bland subject, but it is a subject that we have seen is critically important. That probably relates to my first question. Obviously, we had the Anglo Irish Bank situation, where EY was auditing and failed to report to protect Irish interests. What is different now in the banking system? Could we have another Anglo...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The other question I want to ask is about companies operating outside the country, for example, the Carillion situation, where that company operated under UK audit oversight. That obviously cost millions upon millions. Contractors and subcontractors were deeply impacted by that, as well as employees of those companies. What do we have in place in that regard? What kind of collaboration do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Say proceedings have been taken or there has been a big fine in another jurisdiction, has IAASA any oversight of that? How does the Government then work in allocating projects for such firms? What protections are in place if an auditing firm is fined in another jurisdiction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How much collaboration does IAASA have with those who have oversight of auditors within other jurisdictions? Is there shared information?