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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is a very significant issue and it needs to be in this scheme. I ask the Department to please look into this. Many people in Mayo are concerned that the thresholds will exclude some people from the scheme. There is a visual impact to this. People will have to sit and wait and watch their homes while they further deteriorate, knowing that they are going to have to rebuild them at some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In providing that, the scheme will exclude people and will ask people to continue in the torturous situation where they have to watch and wait for the cracks to get just a little bit larger before the scheme is done. That must be looked at. I want to give an example of a real-life situation regarding the idea of 100%. This is not a made-up story; this is absolutely real. It is a home in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am really sorry but I have been ten years dealing with this and I am running out of patience. How can we call the scheme 100% when we have this real-life situation of a €102,000 shortfall? I could give other examples but this is a specific one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not a 100% scheme. Mr. Ó Coigligh spoke about "the vast majority". I know this is a political situation and there are people involved in devising the scheme. Mr. Ó Coigligh said the vast majority of those who need help will get the financial assistance they need, except for some of them. The test for this scheme has always been that everybody who was impacted would have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have them here, if we can have the rationale for them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. I am asking about the rationale. Did the Department ask the SCSI for a rationale for it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No, it is not. Honest to God, I think Mr. Ó Coigligh has come in here-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is disgraceful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It really is outrageous for the homeowners in Mayo

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will take it from there. The Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach had a meeting with the Central Bank, and the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council as well, yesterday. It was very obviously that people in this country have never worked so hard, and they are working really hard, but the rates of deprivation continue to rise. That is what we need to examine....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When we were discussing taxation and welfare here, it came across strongly that there was a real opportunity here to create something that we never had an opportunity to create before on the island of Ireland since the setup of a system that was really underpinned by the inclusive values of everybody across the island. Is this also a real opportunity as well in terms of the comprehensive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do any others want to speak to that? What strikes me from what Mr. Reidy said is that somebody from Cork should be guaranteed the same rights as somebody from Belfast and vice versaand that people living on the island should know that they have a certain set of rights.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Boyle and Deputy Wynne, who has had to leave. Has Senator Black spoken?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. I call Deputy Tully then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Mapping Diversity, Negotiating Differences: Constitutional Discussions on a Shared Island: Discussion (9 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Professor Todd and Dr. McEvoy. This is a exemplary piece of research not only in what it tells us but how it was conducted because I can clearly see it was done from a community development perspective. It is primary research that reaches people who sometimes can be hard to reach; people who are left out of decision-making, people who have a significant amount to offer and people we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Mapping Diversity, Negotiating Differences: Constitutional Discussions on a Shared Island: Discussion (9 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That gives me a good picture. In terms of resourcing the groups themselves, what do these groups need to be able to overcome some of the barriers identified by the witnesses in terms of their participation? I am thinking of the practical things they need to be able to come to the table.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Mapping Diversity, Negotiating Differences: Constitutional Discussions on a Shared Island: Discussion (9 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In terms of how the witnesses see it or how the people with whom they consulted saw it in terms of feeding into a citizens' assembly, Dr. McEvoy is basically talking about a citizens' assembly plus, plus, plus, namely, all the preparatory work to bring people to the place of a citizens' assembly. Could she describe how all this feeds together? Could she discuss the Scottish referendum and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Mapping Diversity, Negotiating Differences: Constitutional Discussions on a Shared Island: Discussion (9 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there an opportunity within, say, the PEACEPLUS programme to bring together such a structure? This committee makes recommendations to the Government regarding what is needed, what it would look like and what the outcomes of it would be. Can the witnesses help us do that?