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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Key Issues Affecting Youth: North South Youth Forum (15 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am delighted that the witnesses are here today. I commend them on the work they have done, as well as their comprehensive manifesto and how it is laid out. Can this be extended to other counties? How do they see it expanding? As a person from County Mayo, it is great that Galway is involved and I welcome its involvement, but I would like to see it in other counties as well. Is there...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is great. I could talk all day about this subject, so I am fine. My colleagues are not here. The first thing I want to do is congratulate Michelle O'Neill and acknowledge how historic it was to have my own colleague become a republican First Minister. I wish her and Emma Little-Pengelly, both of their teams and the other MLAs the best of luck in the really hard work that they have to...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this motion. It is important. It is timely that we are speaking on it this morning. I, like all other TDs and my colleagues, live in a community in which businesses are struggling. I cannot remember a time when so many businesses were concerned about escalating costs which they just cannot manage. Many are family-owned businesses that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their statements. Starting with those from Revenue, is the number of business closures increasing? I refer to the number of notifications Revenue is getting of businesses closing.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Even with having all that flexibility and trying to do everything possible for businesses, Ms Marray is saying we still lost out on €86 million because of the closures. Is that right?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Ms Marray is obviously following the trends and will be able to tell if she is back here in three months time if that is trend that is increasing and all that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is she noticing particular sectors that are impacted more than others?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. I move to the LPG and the justification for that being excluded from the TBESS. Was any assessment carried out by the Department or Revenue into how LPG and kerosene could have been incorporated into the scheme?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There were still so many restrictions. What we need to try to achieve is where schemes are announced like this, to assess how they are tested in terms of the takeup. Ms Ryan said it cost less than for the TBESS and has given the figure for the number of businesses. How does that compare with the number of businesses the Department would have estimated at the beginning when it was doing its...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, I know all those factors and it is difficult to predict, but when Ms Ryan mentions 400,000 and then the actual takeup is 25,000 it is a huge gap. Has anything been learned about the design of those schemes? If we were to be in a similar situation in six months time, what should be done differently around the design of a scheme to increase the takeup? We had real difficulty in rural...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Was there data used explicitly for taking the comparison dates? What was the rationale for the exact dates used for the comparisons?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay, I thank the officials.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will carry on from that, with it being Valentine's Day and all of the warnings about fraudulent payments and fraud in general. The Bank of England has spent several million pounds on online advertising to raise awareness. As Ms Rowland has said, that is also a key part of it. The last time the bank was before this committee it stated that the Central Bank had launched a public awareness...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know that, and I have further questions about that.