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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Surely that is the fault. This is the fault over and over again. The weakness in these schemes is that the people or entities these schemes set out to target and to help are not involved in setting them up. It is very obvious that people who are one step or several steps removed are designing something that just does not work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is it, exactly. It is not rocket science.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is a question of involving the people we are trying to target to help in the design of the scheme. It would save so much money on nonsense and administration. I will save my question for ISME until the second round if that is okay. As a committee, we need to address what the witnesses have brought before us today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We have been advocating it for years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We see this very much in terms of paying workers a decent wage and making up the gap. One way we see of doing this is through a PRSI rebate. We included this in our alternative budget last week. This would be to make the books balance. How would this work for Mr. Filan's business or other businesses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Filan is right and there is a combination of issues, including energy. Mr. Filan comes from the west of Ireland and he sees all of the wind turbines everywhere. Why is his small business not benefiting from this renewable energy and a reduction in energy prices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is crazy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need transparency. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for allowing me to ask the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I ask Mr. McDonnell to speak to point 7 in his written submission: "Revenue to produce a cost-benefit analysis of enhanced reporting, and abandon it if not materially justified."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a lot to say in three minutes. I will confine my comments to ISME this time. I want to make it absolutely clear that since prior to 2020 we have advocated for an agency that is dedicated to small and medium businesses. Sometimes this is ignored and we speak about parties that are pro-business and parties that are not. It is absolutely vital that we have a dedicated enterprise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know my time is up but I wanted to ask about a PRSI rebate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Absolutely. That is a very good example of red tape. I do not believe in deregulation. We need to be careful about the space being used for deregulation. We only have to look at the billions we are paying for defective concrete blocks because there was no regulation of the quarries, but Mr. McDonnell has given a perfect example of what needs to be done to get rid of the unnecessary...

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It seems desperately unfair that the runaway house prices across the State have led to an increase in home insurance costs. Home insurance is becoming a real problem meaning that some struggling families opt to underinsure their home or go without insurance altogether. The consequences of families taking a chance and foregoing home insurance played out earlier this year when Storm...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise the serious issue of the shortage of beds in Beaumont Hospital. An example of the impact of this shortage is brought home by the very serious case of one of my constituents. I have his family's permission to raise his case with the Taoiseach because they are absolutely desperate. His name is Henry Keane from Blacksod and he was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour. Since 17...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [50476/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The witnesses are all very welcome. It is very significant that they are here today because part of the Good Friday Agreement committee's work has been to break this down sector by sector and answer questions about what an all-island service would look like in different areas. We have already done economics and finance, and women and the constitution. I do not mean that they are static...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Dr. Mack is correct in what she said. I thought she described it well when she mentioned trapped talent. For the purpose of this session, I want to specifically get at what the Irish Government needs to do to help to implement what Dr. Mack identified in the discussion paper and bring it forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How can we ensure there will be a flow across the island, so that people who train on one side of the island can apply for a job without having to go through all the barriers, if you like? We have the same problem with student mobility with people trying to get places here, which we are also trying to tackle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Dr. Kavanagh agree with that?