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Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We will finish at that but I will take that letter and proposal to write to the Department of public expenditure and the Tánaiste on the back of today's hearing.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When those individuals go overseas, what are they paid?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The next speaker is Senator Seán Kyne. He will be followed by Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to get a picture of how reserve defence forces work in other countries, their terms and conditions, how they are treated, the size and all of that. How is it different? If the witnesses were to pick one country that has got it right or nearly right, what country would that be?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is to increase the size of the Reserve but also to pay for the military work or actions that are carried out. I would like to ask about the number of women and what it is like to be a woman in the Reserve Defence Force.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Where does the Reserve Defence Force do recruitment? What work is done in schools or other forums to encourage people to join the RDF?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will move to Senator Craughwell's point next, so he can continue with his question, as I thought it was relevant. If somebody in Belmullet or any other area wanted to join the Defence Forces, there are the practicalities for people who live far away from the bases joining.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is significant. I will go back to Mr. Richardson. Did he make a point of any of Senator Craughwell's points or questions?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there an upper age limit for people, for example if we are talking about retired experts? Is there room there?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I might say even beyond that where we have people who have retired, who may be in a certain financial position and who want to give something back. To me it would seem like an ideal opportunity for a person to give something back and to then share his or her expertise for the good of the State.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to go on to Senator Kyne, if Mr. Gargan does not mind. The Senator has been waiting for a while.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Deputy Ó Laoghaire want to ask a question?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are there any closing remarks before I conclude?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to thank you very much for being with us this morning, Mr. Gargan, Mr. Richardson and Ms McCarthy. This was a very informative session. We have some actions coming out of this in writing to the Department of public expenditure and the Tánaiste. We hear the concerns that you have raised this morning. I just want to thank you as a representative organisation and to thank the RDF...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is taking to ensure that small- and medium-sized businesses can access affordable credit and avoid being burdened with high borrowing costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51024/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minister outline the measures he is taking to ensure small- and medium-sized businesses can access affordable credit and avoid being burdened with high borrowing costs? Access to affordable credit is a significant barrier to our SMEs that want to expand and grow their market share. As they try to navigate their way around all of the challenges they face, they need access to credit.

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No child in Ireland in 2025 should grow up without a home or without hope for the future. If this Government runs its full term, every single child in Ireland will have been born and grown up under a Fine Gael Government. Thousands of those who are children now are going to look back in the years ahead and ask why did this happen and why did they have to grow up in these circumstances. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is an interesting discussion. It is clear there are short-term incentives and interventions that need to be taken to ensure the sustainability of businesses to keep them open and then there are long-term things that need to be done. I was pleased to see my favourite economist Mariana Mazzucato quoted in the opening statement. I very much share her vision. The vision set out in Mission...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is because there is a Sinn Féin Minister, of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On State innovation and the importance of research and development, how do we get more innovation in the public service, Civil Service and government?