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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I hear what Ms Buckley is saying about the uncontrollable legal costs as well. I ask Mr. Cummins about the 9% VAT and the energy. What difference will that make?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 2075. To ask the Minister for Health the changes that have been made to the incremental pay grade for multi-task attendants employed by HSE after March 2025; if all new employees regardless of experience are paid at the lowest pay grade; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44595/25]

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030. However, the Minister and I know that the road from here to Mayo is paved with good intentions and unimplemented strategies, many of which have been outlined here. The subsequent action plan and its implementation will be the test of whether the strategy will bring about genuine change or is just another collection...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 417. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if motor mechanic, plasterer and plumber trades can be added to the critical skills occupation list for employment permits to work in the State given the shortage of qualifications, skills or experience required for the proper functioning of the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48280/25]

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Up and down the country, but especially in rural areas, the inflexibility and lack of common sense of the Department and Bus Éireann constitute a real issue. I will ask the Minister of State two questions before I outline a case for him. Why is there separate vetting in every Bus Éireann office for drivers? I am thinking of where someone crosses over the Galway border from Mayo....

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is beyond time that we end the rip-off of energy bills facing every household and business up and down the country already on their knees with the cost-of-living crisis. More energy increases come at a time when we are already paying the highest levels of energy prices in Europe. That is a badge of dishonour for this Government. How many homes are going to be cold tonight as people try...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No child in Ireland in 2025 should grow up without a home or without hope for the future. If this Government runs its full term, every single child in Ireland will have been born and grown up under a Fine Gael Government. Thousands of those who are children now are going to look back in the years ahead and ask why did this happen and why did they have to grow up in these circumstances. ...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Apologies have been received from Deputy Eamon Scanlon and Senators Diarmuid Wilson, Robbie Gallagher and Tom Clonan. The joint committee is meeting today in public session with the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association, RDFRA, for an update on issues in the Reserved Defence Force. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Eugene Gargan, president of the RDFRA; Ms Jo McCarthy,...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is very useful in terms of reforming the question.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will go first to Senator Craughwell, followed by Deputy Stanley and then Deputy Duncan Smith.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: A beautiful remote place.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Senator Craughwell wish for those questions to be addressed now or will I go onto the next speaker and wait for the Senator to come back?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. Others might raise similar questions and we will wait for the Senator to come back to address them.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We will finish at that but I will take that letter and proposal to write to the Department of public expenditure and the Tánaiste on the back of today's hearing.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When those individuals go overseas, what are they paid?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The next speaker is Senator Seán Kyne. He will be followed by Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to get a picture of how reserve defence forces work in other countries, their terms and conditions, how they are treated, the size and all of that. How is it different? If the witnesses were to pick one country that has got it right or nearly right, what country would that be?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is to increase the size of the Reserve but also to pay for the military work or actions that are carried out. I would like to ask about the number of women and what it is like to be a woman in the Reserve Defence Force.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Where does the Reserve Defence Force do recruitment? What work is done in schools or other forums to encourage people to join the RDF?