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Seanad: Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities 2015-2024: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: We would save ourselves millions. We have spent €500 million on tribunals. Imagine if we had people there who did not lie. We could have saved all that money. They tend to live in the moment and they rarely-----

Seanad: Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities 2015-2024: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is true. We need to think outside the box in terms of how we capture the expertise of people with autism and the other conditions I mentioned. They rarely judge others. They are passionate about what they are focused on, whatever it might be, and they are not tied to social expectations. They have terrific memories. A couple of weeks ago I read about a young chap with autism. I do...

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. It is important to reiterate that everybody wants to ensure there is broadband provision for people in rural areas. There are important issues to be discussed about how we achieve that, but to claim that people on this side of the House do not want broadband provision extended is juvenile. We have been asking for this provision for years. The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I commend the O'Neill pipe band from Clontibret, County Monaghan, who made history by performing here earlier today at the invitation of Deputy Ó Caoláin, Chairman of the Oireachtas committee on justice and equality. It was a fantastic event and I commend Ms Lorna Sherry, the pipe major, and Peadar Morgan, the founder of the pipe band. Their performance of the Flying Pickets song...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Practices: Discussion (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Ms Muldoon for her opening statement. The major problem is the shortage of large-animal vets in rural and, in particular, peripheral areas. What is the Veterinary Council doing to address that in the immediate, medium and long terms? That a veterinary practice is a legal entity is not an issue for us. Rather, it is about the availability of vets and what the Veterinary Council is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025 (Resumed): Bord Bia (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I apologise for having to leave earlier. I had to vote in the Seanad and then I was called somewhere else. There is vertical integration between industry and producers in the pig and poultry sectors. Why is the beef sector so slow to have proper vertical integration that would facilitate a more sustainable situation for farmers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025 (Resumed): Bord Bia (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: We will not have that model here for much longer unless we address the disconnect between the farmers and the producers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025 (Resumed): Bord Bia (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: There are exciting developments in this area and I commend Bord Bia on the work it is doing internationally, especially in China and the rest of Asia. Will the rewards of that work be reaped quickly enough to compensate for the situation in Britain regarding Brexit and the tariffs and all that will follow from that? I refer to the flooding of our shelves with beef from South America.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025 (Resumed): Bord Bia (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is why there needs to be Government intervention to fill the gap. We will not have any family farms left otherwise. A suckler cow premium, even a temporary one, is the only way I can see of filling the gap.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025 (Resumed): Bord Bia (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Ms McCarthy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): KBC Bank (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the representatives for their opening statement. The non-performing Irish buy-to-let mortgage was €0.9 billion-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): KBC Bank (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does that mean I can have half an hour?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): KBC Bank (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Vice Chairman. The non-performing Irish buy-to-let portfolio is €0.9 billion. How many mortgages and mortgage holders are contained within that €0.9 billion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): KBC Bank (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is that what is being sold off? I am trying to get the details on the €0.9 billion in loans that were sold last year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): KBC Bank (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): KBC Bank (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Let us have a look at the €0.9 billion. How many mortgage holders were impacted by this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): KBC Bank (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is important to examine it so I ask Mr. Mahon to let the committee have the exact number of mortgages impacted by it. Sometimes buy-to-let mortgages can be just dismissed as superfluous but they have a real impact on people's lives, particularly where people bought one or two properties instead of a pension that they were guaranteed at the time. It has affected their entire family loan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): KBC Bank (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: What is happening is these mortgages are being sold off. I will take one particular example of a vulture fund buying a mortgage for less than €70,000 and then selling it for €170,000, so it made €100,000 straight off. The fees for the receiver and the legal fees take €35,000 from it. Then the vulture fund goes back to the mortgage holder and demands, as happened...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): KBC Bank (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is almost 5,000 families which are affected. Our guests refer to dwelling homes but for someone who has one property, it is the same as having a dwelling house because there is an impact on his or her everyday life. I know people who are absolutely distraught at the way they are being dealt with by vulture funds. Once KBC sells off to Goldman Sachs, for example, is that its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): KBC Bank (21 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: KBC sold family homes in 2017.