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Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Probably not. Not as well as Senator Norris anyway.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The other matter I want to bring up is very simple. I want to the Taoiseach to come to the Seanad to discuss why he withdrew the Trans-European Transport Network, Ten-T, projects in respect of the west and the western rail corridor. He owes us an explanation. He needs to tell us exactly what is being put in place now in order that the available EU funding can be availed of and that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I was listening to them in the office, although I was not physically present. One of the issues that concerns me about the health service is the cost-benefit analysis that is done on the decisions that are made. It is not obvious to me that the cost-benefit analysis on some of the decisions is correct. This includes some of the decisions to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: What is difficult to understand is how a cost-benefit analysis, CBA, in the North, which is just a few miles up the road, can deliver something like Versatis or Translarna while a CBA here can say that it is not viable. Even looking at those factors, I cannot see how the variables would be so different across a small island as to result is a different outcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is on what Deputy O'Connell said. We cannot treat this in isolation. Within the cost-benefit analysis, I was trying to get at the fact that there are negative externalities that must be considered. One of those is not how many beds could we provide for €36 million but how many beds do we need to provide because of this decision that has been made. I will leave it at that.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Overpayments (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. While this is no reflection on him, I hoped that the Minster for Employment Affairs and Social Protection would come here because it is under her remit.The Minister of State will know where I am coming from in terms of trying to solve some problems. I invited the Minister here today because I am concerned about the situation in which...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Overpayments (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He has an understanding and compassion for elderly people, people with disabilities and people who are vulnerable. Will he ensure that a communication goes to the persons who are making these decisions to bear in mind that compassion is needed when dealing with such cases? That could resolve the situation in the main. We are not discussing a...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I wish to extend our deepest sympathy to the bereaved families in Toronto, and all Canadian people, on yesterday's incident which took so many lives. I wish to discuss the hooded men briefing held in the AV room in Leinster House. I thank my colleague, Senator Niall Ó Donghaile, and Mr. Jim Gibney for organising it. I also thank the Tánaiste, Deputy Coveney, for agreeing to meet...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Senator Norris. The Belfast High Court and the British Supreme Court acknowledged that if it was done now it would be deemed as torture. I am asking for this to be done not just because of these men, but because of the international consequences of that kind of treatment not being deemed as torture. We need to take that into account. There was a British Minister in attendance at...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The logical next step is to take the case to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Ms Boate for her presentation. I will confine my questions to the gambling aspect of the national lottery and Ms Boate's responsibilities in that regard, in particular in regard to gambling addictions. Did Ms Boate see the "Prime Time" television programme last night?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Did she find it distressing when it showed a woman who was confined to her bed and completely addicted to gambling and scratch cards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Perhaps we will tease out some of the things that Ms Boate, as regulator, does to protect people such as the woman featured on that programme last night because we know from addiction centres and from working with people that very many people around the country need to be protected. In terms of young people and online gambling, how does Ms Boate ensure that people using the national lottery...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Ms Boate could not guarantee that my 16 year old son would not be able to go online and gamble on the lottery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: A young person who does not realise the dangers of gambling and so on could get a parent's credit card and suggest he or she is a different age. There is nothing there to stop them doing that. I acknowledge Ms Boate stated they are asked for identification when they win but the chances are they will lose, as we know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: That must be continually looked at because of the increasing problem in this country with gambling. Does the national lottery make any statutory or voluntary contributions to treatment facilities for gambling addiction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: So Ms Boate does not know whether they make contributions or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Morally, does Ms Boate think that they should?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I was just asking for Ms Boate's opinion. In Britain, there is a facility called GAMSTOP where people can bar themselves from gambling. Is there such a facility in Ireland to allow people to bar themselves from doing the lottery?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of Operations of the National Lottery: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: How many weeks was the period of self-exclusion ?