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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Over what period was it held?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I mentioned the Government having a framework because it should not reinvent the wheel. It is so there is an exchange of learning and a moving forward all the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Maybe the witnesses can answer that through the other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No, I think we are okay. One thing I would ask about, but we would be able to source it ourselves, is details of the international models outlined by Professor Ashe. It would be very important to put those in any report, so we could learn from them. I am sure there are differences between them that we could then come up with a model through an exchange of learning from those. What does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That would be really useful. Notwithstanding the focused investment that needs to be in this area, there are some opportunities as well under PEACEPLUS around the exchange between local authorities across the island. We should have women's groups in Mayo, Cork or different counties able to exchange with communities in the North and have a framework and the academic involvement. The action...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want this to get to Mayo as quickly as possible and I have liaised with the local authority there in terms of doing some of this work. It is awfully important for us to acknowledge the courage of a lot of the women in these communities who are coming forward to discuss and share their thoughts and ideas with us. I know the committee really values that because it is certainly not easy....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want Professor Ashe to bring back to the groups she is working with that the committee really values that work, that they are heard and their opinions really matter. I hope they will see that as the committee evolves with this piece of work. I thank Professor Ashe and look forward to further exchanges in the future. The shared island unit is coming in to the committee next week and that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. My first question relates to North-South co-operation. She might be aware that we at the Good Friday Agreement committee are undertaking work on the impact of the constitutional change that would bring about a united Ireland, and we are looking at it sector by sector. We have come up repeatedly against the issue of directly comparable figures between the CSO...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am surprised that happened more than ten years ago because, from having done research myself, I know it is almost impossible to compare like for like between the two censuses. Ongoing work needs to be done and it needs to be prioritised by the Government such that we all pull together in trying to enable the CSO to work with NISRA in that way. There is an added complication in that the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I value that and absolutely accept what the Minister of State is saying, but the results are not coming through to allow us to study, compare and have the data that is necessary to do that, as I am sure any student of economics would agree. I do not know whether there is a way this committee or any other committee of these Houses could facilitate that to bring it forward.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The ESRI will be very useful in that space because it has done very good work with the shared island unit, and that is one of the challenges it has come across all the time. IBEC and the ESRI are developing a macroeconomic model that will tell us a lot and bring this forward, but a conversation specifically with the ESRI on what needs to be done would be useful. The Minister of State...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Adele Bergin, who is excellent, will support that. There are a lot of excellent people in the ESRI but Adele and Seamus McGuinness are particularly good.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. I just think it needs to be deeper and wider, and if we recognise there are gaps, we can seek to fill them in a way that will be useful to us all. Is any training given to public representatives regarding the CSO website? It can sometimes be difficult to navigate, even if it is okay for people who use it day to day.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: They might be offered to us again. Speaking for myself and, I know, for others in representatives’ offices, it is really good to have that information, but being able to draw it out in the way we need to inform the policy proposals we put forward is valuable. I have a couple of questions on behalf of Senator Higgins, who apologises for her absence. She asked about the gathering of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Programme (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3496/24]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. It will be useful for everyone if she gives that to the committee. Senator Higgins asked also about the Women and Men in Ireland survey. It used to be conducted yearly but is now done only every three or five years, I understand.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think consideration should again be given to doing it yearly given the importance of gender budgeting, as the Minister of State will know.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. The monthly updates of figures for those in emergency accommodation are published by the Department of housing. The most recent figures indicated 13,531 people were in emergency accommodation, reflecting an increase of 230 on the previous month. Our estimations, however, suggest that more than 20,000 people are homeless, when people in accommodation not...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. It is important for the figures. There seems to be one set of figures contradicting the other and it is important to capture them. Obviously, what comes out is only as good as what goes in in the first place. The Department of Health and the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform publicly disagree on how Ireland compares internationally in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that.