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Seanad: Sale of Permanent TSB Loan Book: Statements (22 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: In any event, I welcome Fianna Fáil's late conversion on the road to Damascus.

Seanad: Sale of Permanent TSB Loan Book: Statements (22 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I can clarify that they are coming.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for Persons with Disabilities (28 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister for coming to the House on this very important issue. I want the Minister to understand the real hardship that faces parents of children with autism who have no care options in their local area. I refer specifically to Mayo, Galway and Roscommon. The lack of services and the huge waiting lists for everything, from occupational therapy to physiotherapy to respite, is...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for Persons with Disabilities (28 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for his reply but I believe those words mask what is happening on the ground. I will finish with a quote from Amanda McGuinness, a parent who works with voluntary autism services in Mayo, who wrote:Essentially the voices and the futures of children are being stolen from those as a direct result of the lack of therapy available. It confounds me that the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: First, I want to acknowledge Senator Ó Clochartaigh's last day in the House. He has been my colleague since I was elected to the Seanad. I welcome Mali and his family who are here today and the people from Galway who have travelled here. I know there are others on their way who got delayed as a result of the weather conditions. Trevor has played an important part of our Sinn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Commissioner. The multi-annual financial framework, MFF, is the EU's seven year budget but with Britain being one of the major contributors, Brexit has left a hole in all of the budgets, as the Commissioner said. Again, as he said, the choice is between cutting and adding more revenue. Any cut that is likely to be made includes the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, because that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is the Commissioner aware that the distorted nature of the economic statistics, namely, the use of GNI, means that Ireland is in effect overpaying its share? The revision of the GDP and therefore the GNI figures last year cost Ireland €280 million extra in contributions. Has this issue ever been raised by the Irish Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does the Commissioner believe the current situation is unjust that Ireland would end up paying such a huge extra contribution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: One can understand that it is very difficult for Irish citizens to understand that they have to pay €280 million extra when they have such a huge homeless problem and they have such a huge deficit in investment in infrastructure, particularly in the regions. I want to refer to CAP. This is hugely important. If we accept that there is going to be a hole in the budget, CAP is in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Minus 30% in CAP.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: What countries are advocating this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: From our perspective, that would not be acceptable because Brexit is already impacting significantly on Irish agriculture. We hear a lot about solidarity and a lot of words around that. I acknowledge that the EU has stood with Ireland but I really cannot impress on the Commissioner how much a double whammy of Brexit and a cut to CAP would hurt Irish agriculture. Over the last week Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I rise today to talk about the impact of the recent weather on the farming community. I ask that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine would come to the House to discuss what emergency plan he has put in place, in particular to deal with the fodder crisis, which has been ongoing for some months but because of the weather we have had in the past week the crisis has escalated and...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The flag has flown.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I would love to give an answer. Maybe Apple-----

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is not easy at all but it is very easy for people who do not pay any tax.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: They get something for it.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: They get a whole list of things.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Leader cannot stand up and make these statements-----

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: -----but not allow us to respond.