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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution: Value Added Tax (2 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. We are all trying to get ready for the announcement at 9 p.m. That is the situation we are in. I apologise for being late. I understand the absolute necessity to extend the 9% VAT rate on electricity and gas. The Eurostat figures released in October last year show that the average energy bill for an Irish household is €500 higher than the EU...

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the Bill but also encourage the Minister of State to accept the amendments to it. Being from County Mayo and rural Ireland, and Storm Éowyn was mentioned by Deputy Doherty, I see at first hand the importance of a Bill such this and the Bill having a legal standing for businesses' acceptance of cash. I commend the post offices on the Trojan work they did when they did not have...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (1 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the meetings he has engaged in with international organisations, including the United Nations and the European Union, concerning the appalling atrocities inflicted on innocent people in Gaza. [15576/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (3 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports he will provide to those businesses which cannot secure insurance; the steps he is taking to reduce the cost of business insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6598/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [13820/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 14. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [15662/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Taoiseach will remember that on 4 March I raised in the Chamber the case of 16-year-old Mikey Henry, who suffers with scoliosis. Mikey, along with his parents Penny and Michael and his sisters Clara and Cate, travelled from Mayo to the Dáil last week and while they were here they met the Minister for Health. I want to sincerely thank the health Minister, Deputy Jennifer Carroll...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, or London.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are blocks.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 31. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [14195/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In the context of global economic turmoil, investment in infrastructure is very important. In 2021, the national development plan set a target of 5% of GNI* to be invested in capital projects for the period 2021 to 2030. We know this target has not been met in any of the years so far. In 2021, the national development plan was underfunded by almost €1 billion. In 2022, it was...

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: While I welcome the fact that at last the Government is acting upon the recommendations of the Commission on Pensions, which it established, and is introducing legislation to prohibit employers setting a mandatory retirement age for workers, I am calling on the Government to reduce the age at which citizens can access their State pension to 65 years old. People have not forgotten that this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In February, I submitted a parliamentary question regarding resources for students with mild to moderate learning difficulties accessing level 2 learning programmes, L2LPs, and level 1 learning programmes, L1LPs, in mainstream classes. I received a reply but the real issue was deflected. The key question here is whether the Department of Education will allocate hours to schools in order...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will give the Minister of State this document. It sets out what the issue that needs to be addressed is. The student I was talking about receives maths tuition for two hours per week, covering basic units like money, the days in the week and the months in the year. Is there any TD in the Dáil with his or her child at this level of learning in secondary school who would not expect...

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Since President Trump began his second term of office the world as we know it has become a more volatile place. His early statements about turning Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East through a policy of ethnic cleansing shows just what absurd thought processes we are dealing with. Combative statements dominate American foreign policy. That is now finding its way into economic policy....

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Ba mhaith liom cúpla focal a rá mar gheall ar Mhaigh Eo. Gabh mo leithscéal, ach labhróidh mé as Béarla. The Minister will be very familiar with what I am talking about. Recently, the Committee on the Irish Language, Gaeltacht and the Irish-speaking Community published a report that recommended that additional all-Irish post-primary schools be established...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I completely understand that, but the Minister, Deputy Calleary, will have as much interest in this as I have.

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why is Mayo so under-represented in this Bill? It makes no sense. There is only one seat for Mayo on the board, which is a 50% reduction on what we had following the 2005 election. There is no representation at all for the west Mayo Gaeltacht of Oileán Acla, which is too small to have an impact on the Mayo constituency. All of this is being done to facilitate more ministerial...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Artificial Intelligence (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 53. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the AI Action Summit. [14196/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Offices (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 60. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [14197/25]