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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can the delegation see the power imbalance? The switching criteria stipulates that, "Customers must have a satisfactory bank account performance i.e. no unpaid items such as a direct debit or standing order". It does not qualify that in any way so all of the power is given to the individual bank, so there is an imbalance. There is an asymmetry of information in the first instance and there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, and it is not about the one individual. It is about changing the system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We do not know how many more people have letters that they are fearful of opening because of this frequency of contacting people. On that point, I want to discuss pyrite. As Ms Rowland will know, the pyrite issue is huge in County Mayo and is the same as the mica issue in County Donegal. Can Ms Rowland say here today, notwithstanding what the BPFI will announce tomorrow, that all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How quickly does Ms Rowland think that can be put in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand and appreciate that. This issue is time sensitive because many people have lodged applications. We do not want people to be locked out because of, say, their age, and be refused loans and finance purely based on this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, and it would help to have somebody to talk to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need a place for people to go and talk to a person who can solve issues and be consistent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. I will leave my questions at that. We would appreciate the updated information and I will supply the tables.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We want that table updated because it is really important that we have up-to-date and accurate information on this. I want to move to the vulture fund situation and to try to clarify where we are in terms of where people are at. At the end of March, more than 80,000 mortgage loans were held by the vulture funds. More than 70,000 of those mortgage holders were on tracker mortgages or...

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: For months, we have been asking the Minister to do the right thing by homeowners. These are the same homeowners who Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael purport to support and hold in high regard. As each month goes by, people realise that these are just empty words and that lip service is being paid to these struggling mortgage holders, who cannot afford to continue with the crippling rates they...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As things stand, many homeowners affected by defective concrete blocks are unable to access working capital loans from the banks to start the remedial works on their houses. Aside from the well-documented shortcomings of the scheme, such people simply cannot afford to access it. They need invoices for €100,000 of completed work to have grant funding released by the local authorities...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Deputy O'Reilly is to come. She will probably be here, but if she is not I will continue on. Sinn Féin and I, and my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, have been warning this Government since October 2021 – two years ago – that our electricity pricing system was broken and that high gas prices were leading to skyrocketing prices for wind energy companies. At each stage, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I really appreciate that.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will provide the necessary Ministerial approval to increase pensions and deferred pensions for members of the An Post superannuation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39983/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 188. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the total office rental expenditure each year for the OPW since 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39571/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any increase in the capitation grants to primary and/or post-primary is contained in the expenditure base or existing levels of service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40167/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the first- and full-year cost of extending the free schoolbooks scheme to all pupils in public post-primary schools, assuming a grant rate of €192, €200 and €220 respectively, for each student in an eligible year. [40428/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that avail of the school transport each year; and the number of students that avail of the SEN school transport scheme. [40429/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of increasing the grant ceiling for the tillage capital investment scheme to €150,000; and the current annual cost of the scheme with existing ceiling levels. [40645/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (20 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 882. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned Ballyhaunis primary care centre, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, which had a scheduled operational date of Q4 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39510/23]