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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Has the Government made a formal request for that to be done? Whether there is a hard or soft Brexit, I am concerned about the gap between 29 March and the point when funding will be available on the necessary scale, particularly in the regions which may face a downturn, as the Minister noted. I am afraid that during that gap many businesses will go to the wall. That is why I think we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Will that be immediate? Is the Minister satisfied that there will be enough policy flexibility to protect the small and medium-sized businesses I am talking about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Has the Minister identified the structures by which any funding would get to small and medium businesses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is the Minister saying agri-supports would come through the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in that instance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Minister knows that a new agricultural scheme or such would take months to put in place, that the IT system will not always match up, and that checks and balances need to be done. If the structure is not yet identified for how that will be delivered, if it is to be delivered, that would concern me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Such a thing is not ordinary. With regard to state aid, projects such as the western rail corridor, Knock Airport and others in the regions have to be front-loaded. I know the Minister has the national development plan and such but we need to see more urgency there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: The auditors and the bankers always benefit.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I echo the phrase "put up or shut up". The blatant incompetence, unaccountability and recklessness exposed by the national children's hospital debacle merely displays the inability of the Government, carried by Fianna Fáil, to provide the necessary governance and oversight to deliver infrastructure projects such as this one. Now we have the familiar cover-up and defending of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Once again, we can just pull half a million euro out of the hat for PwC to examine where it all went wrong. How does the Government think such people feel when they witness such scandalous waste? I can tell the Leader they are enraged beyond words. Will he arrange for both Ministers to come into the House to answer questions on this matter?

Seanad: Community and Rural Support Schemes: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I welcome the Minister of State. This is a very important session. I commend and thank all of the volunteers connected with all of these schemes, which the Minister of State has outlined, and all the workers and participants on the schemes. They make a huge and valuable contribution to communities all over the country. I want to make a few points on community development. I welcome every...

Seanad: Community and Rural Support Schemes: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: No, these are bad times.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I pay tribute to the determination and dignity of the nurses. Union members are yet to be balloted and will reach their own decisions around what is on the table for them, but regardless of the outcome, they have done a great public service by highlighting a problem that would only have worsened with time. The reasons for the dispute need to be addressed. I thank those who, despite having...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: There are some things that cannot just be explained away.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: We have been doing this for years. It is interesting to look back to 2008 and 2009, when Fine Gael vigorously criticised Fianna Fáil for wasting money, describing the Health Service Executive as a bureaucratic monster that eats money. It rightly accused Fianna Fáil of cancelling services rather than cutting waste. Fine Gael was going to do things differently.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Have a bit of manners, Senator. I am speaking.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I appreciate that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Sometimes they are unwelcome.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I hope I will be allowed another minute for that. It is about where accountability stops and how many times somebody must be made accountable. The Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, has apologised for not giving a fuller account in a parliamentary reply but this is not the first time he has had to apologise. He is a serial apologiser. We have had the CervicalCheck scandal, the treatment...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: They were negotiating a budget.