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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I very much welcome that, but even in that sense it speaks to something of the question of who is in control. I wish to move on because my time is limited. I wish to ask about the redress scheme. Can the Minister explain why a redress scheme cannot be set up with an inquiry? I am concerned that if a redress scheme does not come about until after the inquiry then there will be problems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Will the Minister speak to the question raised by my colleague, Deputy Doherty, yesterday with the State Claims Agency? It relates to the agency taking control such that we do not have a situation whereby we have the women versus the two laboratories. Does the Minister support such a move by the State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I believe it is important. Many profit-driven organisations will not be driven by fairness and the ethical stance that would, I hope, be taken by a state agency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I have a series of questions and will be brief as I want to hear the answers to them. I submitted a question on the number of legal cases against the HSE regarding misdiagnosis, how many were currently in process and how much compensation had been paid out in the past ten years. I have not been furnished with answers and will await replies from the State Claims Agency. However, I find it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: When can we expect the transition to personal budgets for people with disabilities? I have numerous other questions. Overall, I note that the answers I am getting from the HSE in reply to the questions I submit are not at all satisfactory. I have another question on GPs charging for blood samples, which is a continuing practice. When will that be addressed? Is it going to be addressed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Mr. Sullivan's post-decision analysis is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Did the HSE negotiate the price?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I hope Senator Ivana Bacik has made contact with the Sinn Féin office for foreign affairs on that issue-----

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: -----because I have no doubt that a compromise can be reached, but it needs to be done properly. Anybody who listened to "Morning Ireland" this morning would have heard Ms Emma Mhic Mhathúna, a 37 year old mother of five children, say she was dying but did not need to be and that her anger outweighed her fear of dying. While I hate saying this, the question must be asked as to whether...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: As the only woman present at the committee, I want to send our solidarity to Emma. What really struck me was the fact that her anger outweighs her fear of dying. If that does not say something on behalf of the women of Ireland, I am not sure what does. If that does not force accountability on those who are responsible for the cover-ups and negligence, I do not know what it takes to do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Professor Lane for his presentation. I look forward to the day that we do not have to take up time dealing with tracker mortgages examination because it is holding the committee back from dealing with other issues. I would like to put a few questions to him about what the Central Bank thinks might be acceptable under its code of conduct for dealing with tracker mortgages. I refer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The vast majority of the complaints I have received about communications relates to a single bank. There is a pattern with this that needs to be examined. I appreciate the witness saying she will look further into this because I believe it must be probed-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Ms Rowland. I have a couple of questions for Professor Lane. One thing that bothers me is whether the Central Bank is a bank for Dublin or for all the State. With regard to unemployment, reducing unemployment and so forth, I am from Mayo in the west and there are vast areas that have huge unemployment. It is up to 30% or 35%. My colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty, spoke about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will explain how it connects to all of this, and I understand the difference between Central Bank policy and Government policy. Consider what is happening with the deferred tax assets, which are quantified at €215 billion. A sum of €215 billion could provide a great deal of vital infrastructure in the west and rural Ireland. Indeed, it could provide many homes to address...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I wonder how much we are losing in all of this and the choices - the witness mentioned "compared to what" earlier - instead of giving these tax breaks and incentives. I believe there is a threat there in terms of us losing control over our property market. There is all of this activity but there is little to back it up, and we have little control over it. For me, it is just adding to what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I appreciate that. My time is limited but while I appreciate the reassurances that the same thing could not happen again, I believe there is too much that is external.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The risks outweigh the benefits, particularly in housing and dealing with homelessness and all of the other factors that feed into it. We cannot take any of these things in isolation. Does Professor Lane think it is right that the banks which we have bailed out and with which we have struggled and with which we on this committee continue to struggle can get away with not paying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is not and the people who have suffered as a result of the crisis and what the banks did in this country know that it is not cost free. The committee will soon deal with the markets in financial instruments directive which shines a light on many of the darker areas of financial services. In November a Russian bank defaulted on $500 million worth of loans made through a Dublin office. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is there a reputational or economic risk involved in it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We should never facilitate it.