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

Rose Conway-Walsh: If we have really good standards here but they are not so good in another jurisdiction, does IAASA have another oversight of that?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a brief question about the separation with the big four. It is obviously the big four we are talking about in the main. It is specifically about the approach we have here in terms of the ethical wall. There is no enforced structural split, but the UK and some other jurisdictions are considering a mandatory split. Is that something we should be considering here?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I do not want to take up the Chair's time or that of anybody else on the committee. Do the witnesses think we should be following the UK in the same way with a mandatory split?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay, so it is on the table but we have not pursued it.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are protections.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I commend the students who gathered outside the gates this evening and the students who are here this evening, including the new student union representatives, for pushing back against this desperate situation. Parents and students need to know how much they will be paying in nine weeks time. They need to know this now. People have to budget. Members of this Government do not seem to get...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The fact we are here today discussing amendments so soon after the Government's watershed planning Act of 2024 confirms that it did not get the reforms right first time. Sinn Féin called for additional scrutiny back then and, par for the course, we were not listened to. The issues this Bill seeks to address should have been part of the discussions on the original legislation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with British Ambassador (8 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sorry because I had to drop out. My colleague, Senator Murphy, has gone through the issues we raised in the private session. I thank the ambassador for his time here. I am glad he enjoyed it. I also thank him for his interest in all of the Twenty-six Counties. Obviously, my absolute desire is that we will have a British ambassador some time soon who will cover all the Thirty-two...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of proposed changes to the school bus service for a school (details supplied); if she is aware that parents have been informed by Bus Éireann that the drop-off is being changed; the rationale for this change which will mean pupils will have to walk 1.1 kilometres to access transport; if a safety assessment has been...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Apologies have been received from Deputy Catherine Callaghan. The joint committee is continuing its pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the defence (amendment) Bill 2025. I welcome on behalf of the committee Mr. Stephen Kelly from the Peace and Neutrality Alliance, and Ms Niamh Ní Bhriain from the Transnational Institute. They are very welcome. The witnesses are here...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Go raibh maith agat. I call Ms Ní Bhriain.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Go raibh maith agat. I open the meeting now to questions from members. Each member will have seven minutes and it is up to individuals to use their time however they so wish. Non-members will have five minutes. I call Deputy Brian Stanley.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Time. I am sorry. I have allowed enough time for the witnesses to answer. I call Deputy Ryan O'Meara.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will go to Senator Tom Clonan but are there any other permanent members who wish to indicate before I go to the non-permanent members? Now everyone puts a hand up. Senator Clonan can continue.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will allow the witnesses to answer briefly but the Senator's time is up.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think it would be best to move to answering the questions.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Senator, please keep your contribution to the legislation we are trying to scrutinise. I know the argument you are developing.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I call Senator Seán Kyne.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As there are no other permanent members indicating I will give five minutes to each of the non-permanent members, starting with Senator Alice- Mary Higgins. I will take indications for a second round of one short question each.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Four permanent members have indicated. I will give two minutes to each person and ask them to try to stick within the time. I will start with Senator Craughwell, then Deputies Brabazon and Stanley and then Senator Clonan, so far.