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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How will it work for people living in Ireland but who are tax resident in Jersey? How will that work for individuals? They are paying their tax in Jersey because it is the lower rate but are resident here.

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank my colleague Deputy Carthy for tabling this motion. When I entered the Seanad, it was my colleague Deputy Pádraig MacLochlainn who first told me this absolutely unbelievable story. It is as unbelievable today as it was then. I am absolutely astonished that the best the Minister can provide is that she will write to the justice committee to allow it time. Time? How much...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 36. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the budgetary package for public expenditure outlined in the summer economic statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29544/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I really appreciate that. I take this opportunity to offer my sincere condolences to the family of John O'Mahony. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Gerardine, and their five daughters, as well as the wider family and friends, including his wider family in the GAA and the Fine Gael Party. I offer my condolences to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and all his colleagues. I served with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I look forward to the meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight tomorrow evening. I am sure the Minister understands why we need the figures for the budget preparation. I refer to what the Minister stated is provided for health. He is providing €1.5 billion in funding for the health service this year. That will be in the base for 2025, but the Government is then providing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What has been announced today for the health service does not provide for any measures to increase capacity or improve services: it simply allows it to stand still. The capital budget outlined in the statement leaves the budget short by €1.5 billion, based on the targets of the national development plan, in terms of the 5% of GNI*. Sinn Féin wanted to see a change of course...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 38. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether he has any plan to extend the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General to public bodies such as RTÉ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29546/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What plans does the Minister have to extend the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General to public bodies such as RTÉ? As soon as the RTÉ scandal broke we in Sinn Féin called on the Government to bring the broadcaster under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the State auditor. When will this be done?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is very important this is done. It is important that it is done in conjunction with the future funding model of RTÉ. There is no better form of financial oversight and it would immediately increase the transparency and accountability needed to restore confidence. This is why we produced the necessary legislation in the weeks following the scandal. It is a simple and direct...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome that it is happening, but it should happen this week to give the Dáil and the media committee a chance to debate the proposal. Sinn Féin has called on the Government to scrap the television licence, as the Minister will be aware, and to fund RTÉ and other broadcast services directly because the TV licence is outdated and regressive. It is wrong that people are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is accountability.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are here again discussing this motion, for which I thank the Social Democrats, but I wonder how many more motions we will need. I do not see the type of progress needed. In this regard, we should bear in mind Natasha O'Brien, Bláthnaid Raleigh and the women of Women of Honour. Like so many others, I watched in absolute horror the footage concerning the women of the FAI, who are...

Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the Bill. In everything we do in this area, our concern is that there be fairness for farmers. It is also about bringing the enjoyment back into farming. The Minister knows all about the various schemes, the associated bureaucracy and everything that has happened over the years. I accept completely that there must be proper governance of everything that is done. However, the...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Bhille. Bunaíodh Údarás na Gaeltachta de thoradh gluaiseacht chearta sibhialta na Gaeltachta sna 1960idí agus 1970idí nuair a throid pobail Ghaeltachta chun guth a bheith acu ina bhforbairt féin trí thoghcháin díreacha. Ó tharla na toghcháin deireanacha in 2005, chuir Fianna Fáil na toghcháin ar...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish the Minister for Finance, Deputy Chambers, well in his new role. The Housing Commission has stated that we are 250,000 homes short at the moment. On the basis of the allocations and performance so far, what year do the Ministers expect us to be in a situation where there is no shortage of housing?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will that be before the budget?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I cannot see how we are going to address the shortage of 250,000 homes. I will move on to my other questions, if that is okay. My first question relates to public sector pay. The current agreement will run until halfway through 2026. We can see there are quite consistent allocations for budgetary decisions that will be allocated out to 2030. Can we take it that a future pay agreement...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not baked in. Okay.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand. I was wondering if a figure was baked in or is to come out of the to-be-allocated funding. I wish to talk about the health budget and what was done yesterday, which I welcomed. Will the Minister admit at this stage that everybody, including members of this committee, the representatives of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, and the CEO of the Department of Health, was...