Results 4,981-5,000 of 6,653 for speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It needs positive discrimination. When you find yourself in the lowest 7% of the EU regions-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Naturally. There are so many opportunities in the west. We have a habit of thinking up good phrases. The Atlantic economic corridor is a great phrase but it means nothing unless it is underpinned with investment, for example, in Knock Airport, the western rail corridor, the N17, and renewable energy in the potential of offshore and onshore. This is the problem. In the west and in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I argued it with Mr. Power in class years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: He said in a very low voice, unless there was an external shock. I will always remember that. The external shock came. That is why what we are discussing today is so important, as well as the ESRI report from last week. The way to protect ourselves against the next recession, which there will be at some stage, is to have this infrastructure in place. I am fearful of what will happen if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Deputy Shanahan envisage any role for the national investment office in the Department of public expenditure, particularly in major capital projects? The NIO is supposed to be the centralised hub of expertise in delivering capital projects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Many of these capital projects go wrong from the beginning and are almost designed to go wrong in not having clear objectives and outcomes, and measurement is almost impossible. Are we saying through this Bill that there would be a requirement to provide information on project objectives, on the real outcomes and on the outputs from the project measured against those objectives? Would the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When the OECD makes an assessment that we are one of the worst countries in the whole of the area in budgetary oversight and all of that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know, and I completely agree as I know some of the projects Ms Henry is talking about where there is good practice there, but what we want is to have that taken as a given.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: One thing about this committee is the diversity of opinion among its members. I thank Deputy Shanahan for the Bill. It will be the first of many pieces of legislation in this area. We are starting from a very low base. There are many things we need to correct, including bringing expertise back into the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We only have a minute and a half left so maybe I will come in on the next round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the opportunity today. I was looking forward to this session for months and the information the witnesses can give us. We are excited about the opportunities and what can be done under this programme. I welcome the CEO of Galway Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Kenneth Deery. It shows the huge level of interest. I welcome the people watching online today to see how we can make this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: To be clear, this is not just the Border counties. It is local authorities across the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there a minimum or maximum amount for small grants? What are the timelines? Is there a less bureaucratic process for smaller grants than for very large ones?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could the special EU programmes body co-fund with LEADER?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If LEADER part-funded a project, would that prevent collaboration across the Border?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Would something like community education, for instance, or twinning of projects, fit into that? If there were a community education project in Mayo and one in east Belfast, would that work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could there be a situation where half of an apprenticeship programme would be running in, say, Mayo or somewhere in the South and half in the North, where there could be that flow between?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What would be the first port of call for a private enterprise that sees an opportunity for research and development or whatever else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad Mr. Huddleston mentioned that because that was going to be one of my questions around the ATU and the very good work that is being done in Donegal in the partnerships there. I see really good results coming from that, so it is very good to have this fund that is able to support that work. I ask about the programme's animation and the capacity for reaching out. The ideal thing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I can see that is a real challenge. I used to work in the LEADER programme so I am aware of the value of that. It is okay to refer to the hard-to-reach people but they take time, resources, dedication, patience and all of those things. The temptation if you are under pressure and do not have the resources is to go with the ones who are less labour intensive and that is what you do not want...