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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The figure was not €20 billion that time, was it? It was not at €20 billion when the other papers were published.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No, but it said €20 billion.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [19530/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When the Taoiseach took office a month ago, a mother wrote to him asking for help with her six-year-old son. He has severe autism. The family has been refused a domiciliary care allowance. Payment is not supposed to be based on the type of disability but on the level of physical or mental impairment if the child's needs are substantially more than those of other children but this is not...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I was really glad to hear one of the Government TDs at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach earlier say a number of times that we should declare a housing emergency. Even the Government's own TDs are saying it. Its councillors and candidates on the ground recognise it and they are saying the same thing. The Minister needs to listen to them, but they...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I propose Deputy Aindrias Moynihan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Ministers for being here. It gives us a good opportunity to examine the stability programme update. Housing is the number one issue facing the country so I will seek clarity on the indicative allocation for housing. We know that €3.9 billion is allocated to the Department as a whole in 2024 and that will increase to €4.3 billion in 2026. However, a large share,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is fine. I appreciate that the Minister may not have some of this information to hand today. If he can get back to the committee with it, that would be great.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is very detailed, but it is important.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. Are there any other forms of non-voted expenditure for the building of social and affordable housing within the general government balance?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would indeed. If the Minister could clarify, is ISIF lending to the Land Development Agency is completely off the balance sheet?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister will include that in the note. Okay. Is there any scope for ISIF to provide financing on a commercial basis to approved housing bodies to deliver affordable or cost-rental housing? Would this be off the balance sheet in the same manner as the LDA?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is our final SPU. Next year, as the Minister indicated, it will be replaced by the new progress report in April of each year under the EU fiscal rules. The SPU states that the medium-term fiscal plans will commit member states to an agreed net expenditure path for a five-year period and the plan will subsequently be endorsed by the Council of the European Union. It states that, once...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What would happen if there was a major external shock or whatever? Would we not be so restricted that we could not adapt to a situation like that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would have to be done collectively. Is that not giving away our power regarding how we could respond? We are a small, open economy. If something happened in the US, with our overdependency on multinationals from the US, I cannot understand how we would be able to respond in the way we would need to if we are so restricted by this.