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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Can we get the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Varadkar, in to the House next week?

Seanad: Critical Health Professionals Bill 2017: First Stage (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: This was preceded by the Sinn Féin Bill.

Seanad: Critical Health Professionals Bill 2017: First Stage (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: This was superseded by the Sinn Féin Bill passed last week.

Seanad: Critical Health Professionals Bill 2017: First Stage (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: What kind of jobs are they?

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Second Stage (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: My party and I truly welcome this domestic violence Bill and thank the Minister most sincerely for all the work she has done and bringing the Bill to the Oireachtas. Domestic violence can happen to anybody. It happens to men and women. It can happen to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, LGBT, community, an issue about which my colleague will talk in a few minutes. It...

Seanad: North-South Interconnector: Motion (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. I am pleased to see him in good health. Sinn Féin is happy to support the Private Members' motion that has been proposed this afternoon. We have stood with the communities affected by this scheme since the beginning. In 2014, we passed a strong motion at our Ard-Fheis calling on EirGrid to put the cables underground. Residents along the...

Seanad: North-South Interconnector: Motion (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: No, I am not. I am naming EirGrid because I think it is responsible for the untruths it put out there. Successive Governments are responsible for not calling into question those untruths. They should have faced down EirGrid when it was telling people these untruths. The fact is that these lines can be put underground. The concerns that have been expressed about the cost of doing so are...

Seanad: North-South Interconnector: Motion (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: It does not fill me with confidence to hear the Minister saying now that there will be consultation. The Minister also indicated that a report will be drawn up to look at international best practice and relative cost differences in underground technologies. This should have been done years ago. It should have been done before now.

Seanad: North-South Interconnector: Motion (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: It should have been done in a right and truthful way that would have allowed people to have confidence in it. People should not have been fobbed off by being told they would not understand the physics. Those who claimed to know better tried to tell the public that this could not be done underground. It can and will be done underground. We must respect the will of the people in this...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Le cúpla lá anuas tá ceist thábhachtach ann maidir le scéal an-bhrónach a tharla inár saol féin. Chuir an scéal seo isteach go mór ormsa. We are all shocked by the most recent revelations about the discovery of what has been described as a substantial amount of human remains at the site of the mother and baby home in Tuam. I commend and...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: They were then thrown out by it, often without their babies. In many cases, their babies were robbed from them and sold or left to die. The heart-rending stories of mothers begging for their babies are inhumane and gut-wrenching. Make no mistake: what has been revealed is decades of State-facilitated torture of mothers and children.There is much we should do to recover the truth and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (8 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will do the best I can. I thank my colleague, Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh, for raising this matter and I thank the Minister of State for being here. This is an issue that we have been working on in Mayo and along the coast for the last number of years. We are working on it from the point of view of first establishing the ownership of the foreshore, particularly where people have...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: You are not the first man I stopped in his tracks, a Chathaoirligh. All joking aside, I extend my sincere sympathy and that of my Sinn Féin colleagues to the families of the young woman and the two children who lost their lives in the unfolding tragedy in Clondalkin this morning. May they rest in peace. Sonas daoibh go léir ar Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan.. Happy...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am not the only one who is making that point; 5,000 people are turned away.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will provide the facts.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I did not give alternative facts. Some 5,000 women were turned away.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Ba mhaith liom mo chomhbhrón a dhéanamh leis na daoine a fuair bás sa tine i Cluain Dolcáin. For a beautiful mother, Annmarie, her unborn child, her daughter, Paris, and their relatives, Holly and Jordan, a place of refuge turned out to be their place of death. We extend our sincere sympathy to their families and wish the other people involved in the fire a speedy...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: It would be remiss of us not to do our job in this House and bring these facts to the forefront day in and day out until the problems are solved because they affect people's lives. As we have seen in Clondalkin and throughout this country, this issue is what matters to people. People are at risk because of Government policy and we, as legislators, must ensure that such a policy is stopped....

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: My two colleagues have covered much of what we in Sinn Féin wanted to say. I pay tribute to all those in the Visitors Gallery who are joining us. I salute their courage and perseverance in getting to the bottom of this issue. I salute the courage, perseverance and wonderful work of Catherine Corless. The pride that I feel for somebody like Catherine Corless is immeasurable. What...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters): Motion (9 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: We support the terms of reference and recognise the work the Minister of State has done, in terms of bringing Grace herself to the centre of this and also in including the other children. The case concerns 47 intellectually disabled children altogether. Can the Minister of State tell me how Grace is doing now? Does she have the care, supports and services that she needs? Do her mother and...