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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is it correct that it will facilitate the purchase of 150 houses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Has anybody in government approached the bank around playing a more active role in addressing the housing crisis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I welcome the role being played by the bank but because of its size, it could play an even more significant role in addressing what is the real crisis. I will touch on a topic covered by Deputy Michael McGrath, the confirmation by the witness of his role as chief executive officer of AIB and EBS. Is he chief executive of the whole operation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is a bit confusing for people with the setting of two different strategies and sets of policies for two different sets of customers. It almost creates the illusion of competition and the running of two banks. There is an integral unfairness there as customers are treated differently, and I suppose that is why we have been contacted as a finance committee by customers aggrieved in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: AIB needs to listen to its customers and what it tells us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: It should take it on board.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for coming to Mayo. I speak on behalf of the action group there. I was very disappointed, as was the action group, that I was not invited to attend that meeting and was excluded from it. As the Minister of State knows, I and Senator Mac Lochlainn have been working on this matter for several years. However, it is not about us. It is about the home owners. ...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Will the Minister of State guarantee -----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I have just come from the launch of part of Sinn Féin's pre-budget submission on tackling the health crisis which lays particular emphasis on the need to invest in home help and home care packages. The inhumane cuts to the numbers of home help hours and home care packages initiated by Fianna Fáil and continued by Fine Gael have left the service in crisis which is not just manifest...

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for being here. The last input was extremely interesting. It outlines what we have received in 100 years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the regions and the desperate state the regions are in, particularly-----

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Well, almost 100 years but we will not split hairs.

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Senator gets what I mean.

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Senator is always trying to be helpful. It is very interesting when a Government colleague stands up and tells the Minister of State straight that what the Government is doing is not working, that what it has done previously has not worked, that rural Ireland is left behind and that this capital review needs to do something drastic and needs a new approach. I certainly agree with that....

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Parts of Mayo have an unemployment rate of 31%.

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Minister of State should deal with the 31% unemployment rate.

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is that a direct question?

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will not sit here and listen to this rant.

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is why we made a fully costed pre-budget submission.

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: What about the €13 billion to Apple and the €340 million to vulture funds?

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of Capital Plan: Statements (27 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: You are obviously rattled. Get back in your pram.