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Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (18 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect a drawdown from the National Reserve Fund would have on the national debt given that the fund reserve is currently invested in National Treasury Management Agency Exchequer notes; if taking money from the National Reserve Fund would mean a corresponding repayment of the national debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23907/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (18 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect a drawdown from the National Reserve Fund would have on the General Government Debt given the NRF is stored in National Treasury Management Agency Exchequer notes; if the National Reserve Fund is within General Government Balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23908/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (18 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect a drawdown from the National Reserve Fund would have on the Government Budget Balance given the NRF is stored in National Treasury Management Agency Exchequer notes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23909/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (18 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 228. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the two approval stages prior to implementation under the planned reforms to the public spending code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23922/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (18 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 229. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he can confirm that projects costing in the range of €100-€200 million will no longer be required to go through the external assurance process; if his Department will revert to conducting technical reviews of projects over €100 million not covered by the external assurance process; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (18 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will publish the review of alternative dispute resolution provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23924/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (18 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual value of EAP contracts in 2022 by Department; the successful external applicant and the value of each contract, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23925/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (18 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 232. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the allocated funding for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for each year since 2006, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23927/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Spending Code (18 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the rationale for introducing the technical reviews conducted by his Department with external assurance process; if he will outline any research that supported the policy decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23929/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will share time with Deputy Tully, if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation for its opening statement and for all of the work that it does. It is great to have them here before us today. I want to start with the last part, I suppose, in terms of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill 2022. Mr. Hynes rightly documents the legacy Bill being repugnant to all kinds of international law,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is the key. We cannot leave it to individuals to have the expense of going to court, etc.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is why, as co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, the Irish Government has a responsibility to do that. It would not be the financial and stressful burden for the Irish Government that it would be for individuals. It is a way of avoiding it. Does Glencree have a policy to expand its engagement by cascading out through its current network contacts or does it depend on making the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How does Mr. Hynes measure, quantitatively and qualitatively, the outcomes of the different events the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation has and the different engagements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sorry. I am conscious that I have eaten into my colleague's time here. I want to give Deputy Tully a chance.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [25964/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Recently released data from the EU as part of the EU regional competitiveness index lay bare the severity of the infrastructure deficit in the west and the north west. These regions' competitiveness has been undermined by the failure of the Government and successive Governments to invest in the west and the north west. Out of the 234 designated regions across the EU, the north-west region...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The figures are independent.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There were 12,000 home help workers employed directly by the HSE in 2008, and now there are just over 5,000. I am glad that Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is here. The system is broken in many ways. What true evaluation has been done of the impact of the policy of outsourcing and privatisation? We can do all of the advertising in the world, but the system is now broken to an extent...