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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. I have to ask the witnesses, if they do not mind - it is not directly bank-related - but have any of them applied for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is Ms McDade coming up against a problem with the meter point reference number, MPRN? There are a lot of people excluded because-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am asking Ms McDade this because there is a particular problem where people have availed of the SEAI grant before, maybe years ago and during the scheme's original days, and that is attached to the MPRN. Now they are being refused for the scheme this time around because they have already availed of it. They are treating that as normal as well. Even though there is a promise of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is exactly the situation I am talking about, where people are being refused on that basis where it is like for like. While some of the piping infrastructure may be reutilised, they are locked out of applying again, and that really has to be rectified. It is something my colleague Deputy Eoin Ó Broin is following up on as well to get that anomaly cleared. I have taken up quite a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is certainly not fact finding, and I can tell Ms Shovlin that as someone who has been dealing with the issue of pyrite in Mayo for about 12 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It has been a long and arduous journey, as it has been for the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is important to say that it is not the engineers themselves but the limitations they have to work to that is of concern to us. We are also concerned about the damage threshold in terms of how long people have to wait. People know that remedial action has to be taken on their house at some point but they are being told to wait until it gets bad enough. We need to make this scheme as fair...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to make the point that this is a very time-sensitive issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are people within the system who have made applications, etc., and I do not want to open the discussion again. There are other issues that allow time, but this is really time-sensitive because the applications are already there. There is the issue of planning permission and the fact houses have already been demolished and so on.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): State Pensions (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Chair for allowing me in. I want to speak on this subject. I welcome what has been said, and I hope it means foster carers will be eligible for pensions after this. It needs to happen as soon as possible. I met a group of foster carers in County Mayo on Monday, and what they told me was quite shocking, particularly with regard to foster carers looking after children with...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): State Pensions (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think the key to all of this is that the Departments interlink and work together to look at these families in a holistic manner. Some of the foster parents I have spoken to are being forced to go back to work, because there are gaps in their payments that will not ensure them a pension in the future. If it can be brought together in a holistic manner, that would be good.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Poverty Impact Assessment (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the actions she will take to address the alarming increase in the number of retired people at risk of poverty as in the public service performance report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33174/23]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Poverty Impact Assessment (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is my real question. The public service performance report made for stark reading. It shows an alarming rise in the number of retired people at risk of poverty in 2022. It is deeply concerning that one in five retired people is now at risk of poverty. What new actions is the Minister taking to address this alarming increase in the number of older and retired people at risk of poverty?

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Poverty Impact Assessment (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It seems the Minister is refuting these figures but-----

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Poverty Impact Assessment (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----the percentage of older and retired people at risk of poverty has gone from 11.9% to 19.1%, as of last week. Pre-pandemic, one in ten retired people was at risk of poverty. In 2022, this spiked to one in every five people. I do not think we can ignore these figures. I know statistics mean statistics but at the end of the day, we have elderly people who are struggling. There were a...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Poverty Impact Assessment (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If those payments were not provided, the figures would be even starker. The Minister cited a figure of €44 weekly but she knows what it takes when people do their shopping, pay extra medical expenses and everything else that goes with the rising cost of living and inflation. The Government this week published the summer economic statement, which states on the first page that there...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the regulations of the new defective concrete blocks scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33172/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any additional emergency accommodation has been put in place in Mayo since the lifting of the eviction ban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33173/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 28 June 2028, whether the Pension Authority is categorised as a non-commercial State agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33397/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 28 June 2028, whether the Office of Public Works is categorised as a non-commercial State agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33398/23]