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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is my understanding as well. We have gone to Brussels and got the same answers. There are serious questions to be answered. The rail review is our last opportunity. I believe the Minister has said it will be published in late summer. We need to see this project being properly recognised in the rail review. I am also on the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This morning the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, SCSI, launched a report on the construction costs of rebuilding the homes affected by pyrite and mica. I thank it for its work and acknowledge that it did so free of charge as a public service. I welcome the scrapping of the nonsense of the sliding scale, but there are many issues of concern outside the terms of reference. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On behalf of Sinn Féin, I wish the outgoing Leader of the Labour Party, Deputy Kelly, well following his announcement last night that he has resigned his role. I extend my best regards to him and his family. I welcome Ms Linda Ervine, who will be in the Seanad today to speak on Seachtain na Gaeilge. We extend her a fáilte mór from this House and acknowledge the great work...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to be updated on those discussions. There has to be an immediate response, or one that is as immediate as possible. There are growing conversations in many EU countries about ending imports of Russian oil and gas into the future. Has the Government considered what the State can do to secure its energy supply if this comes to pass? We were told all the time that the Corrib gas...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek to have the Western Rail Corridor included in the TEN-T programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11992/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the all-Ireland strategic rail review will provide the basis for the inclusion of the north of Ireland within the TEN-T programme as is the case with other territories outside of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11993/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the pyrite and mica redress scheme making particular reference to the sliding scale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11991/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new build social homes and new build affordable homes that were delivered in County Mayo in 2021; the targets for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11990/22]

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As I speak today I am mindful that it is Ash Wednesday, a day of repentance when Christians confess their sins and profess their devotion to God. I do not want to make this religious but I am acutely aware of the suffering that the families of the victims of those who have been buried have endured over the decades and that they still endure. The Minister acknowledged that and he understands...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Trans-European Transport Network, TEN-T, policy is a gateway that gives specific rail and road transport infrastructure, routes, ports and airports exclusive access to the Connecting Europe Facility, CEF, fund. It also represents the individual member states' priority rail and road transport corridors, ports and airports. The latest 2021 CEF transport call under the 2013 TEN-T map is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: TEN-T funding.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What about the western rail corridor?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [10081/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand the role of the Department is to ensure that it is sustainable from a fiscal and expenditure perspective but that is the heart of the issue and it is why the employment framework was introduced in the first place. I welcome the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and I, like many working in the sector, took that as a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister will understand that the funding per student is down 37% on what it was in 2008. Most early career academics and researchers now go from one precarious contract to another. Some 16% of researchers in the technological sector are on permanent contracts but only 5% of researchers in universities are on full-time contracts. It is important to remember that many of these...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 59. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is engaged in discussions to agree revised principles for a new higher education staffing agreement to update the current employment control framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11405/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for thinking about County Mayo.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank him for his positive action. That is what I like. Is the Minister engaged in discussions to agree revised principles for a new higher education staffing agreement to update the employment control framework? I have raised this issue a number of times since the Government was formed. The sector and its workforce have struggled under the employment control framework since 2010....

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Mayo University Hospital waiting list increased by 162% from July 2015 to July 2021. It takes 712 days for people to get general surgery there. There are severe regional imbalances to be addressed. I have listened to what the Minister has said and one of those was about delivering care close to home. I ask the Minister to talk to the workers and managers who have been appointed to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider increased investment in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General to ensure the high quality audit of public funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11404/22]