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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I just want the numbers of farm loans in the BMW area. What I am trying to get at is that often smaller farmers and those who need help and support to develop would say it seems like the entitlements to loans and financing goes to the bigger farmers rather than the smaller ones. Obviously there would be a greater number of smaller farmers in the border, midland and western, BMW, area. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It would be great if Mr. Ashmore could do so. I would just like a further breakdown in terms of the numbers and averages for the BMW area. The main thing we are trying to get at is whether there was a fair sharing of these loans. If we are looking at average incomes, we know that the further west one goes, the more the income reduces. There are incomes of as little as €3,000....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: In addition, not all farmers are members of the IFA. There are also organisations such as the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association, INHFA, that would represent some of the smaller farmers and the hill sheep farmers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We will have a further look in terms of the figures for the scheme. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine indicated in January that a similar scheme to the €150 million agricultural cashflow scheme would be up and running in the second half of the year. Has much progress been made on that between Strategic Banking Corporation Ireland, SBCI, and the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Was putting the schemes through something like the credit unions considered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I would say that 6.75% is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: -----very high. That is why we need a public banking system similar to the one we see in Germany, Sparkassen. We will talk about that another day. The €25 million in the January 2017 scheme actually leveraged €150 million. Would Mr. Ashmore see the same thing happening again in terms of the €25 million? Has there been any estimates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does Mr. Ashmore have a breakdown of the reasons people were refused loans and the numbers of people who were refused?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I very much welcome that because that information is very important. Even if someone goes in and has that initial conversation that person can be dissuaded from applying and that is never recorded. It is something that needs to be monitored.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Has the uncertainty surrounding the common agricultural policy, CAP, had any influence on the SBCI's planning for the next scheme?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I welcome the Domestic Violence Bill, which goes through Committee Stage in the Dáil. I commend all those involved in it and the support given to Members from the front-line services, particularly Safe Ireland. I hope the Bill will journey quickly through to Report and Final Stages. I want to talk about an interesting development known as Clare's Law, which has come into force in...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Will I do?

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We only have women leaders in Sinn Féin.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Are we? I wonder what that feels like.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will refer briefly to three things this morning. The first is to welcome the announcement by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, that the Government has agreed to advise our President, Michael D. Higgins, to exercise his constitutional right to grant a pardon to Maolra Seoighe from the Mám Trasna murders. That is a very positive, significant move. I look forward...

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for attending this debate. I hope he takes on board what we say today. I was a councillor in the west Mayo area for seven years and, as has been said, the role of the councillor is changing all the time. I disagree with the urban versus rural issue. We have to be careful about that in terms of making chalk of one and cheese of the other. The role of a...

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We speak in here so many times about workers' rights, precarious working hours, zero-hour contracts and all that. We need to do the same for our councillors.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I pass on the condolences of the Sinn Féin team in the Seanad to the family of Big Tom and I acknowledge all the years of entertainment he provided for his fans, not only in this country but also on the international stage. He helped keep the connection with the diaspora. For those of us who lived in London and frequented the Galtymore, the Gresham and other venues, he will be sadly missed.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I know. He and people like him do so much for Irish society by bringing people together. May he rest in peace. I acknowledge also the quality of the debate among the young people who were in the Chamber today. It was absolutely fantastic. Anyone who missed it should tune in to look at the substance that was there. It is something which is often absent from debates not only in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Today I raise the issue of the fodder crisis. While it is being discussed later on this afternoon, due to bereavement I have to head west. I will just make three brief points on it. If the Minister is serious about supporting agriculture, he needs to immediately instruct the payment of all outstanding payments to farmers. I refer not only to GLAS payments, but to all of the other...