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Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the summit, is there any room for this committee on that or how do we feed into it? We have the national economic dialogue, for example and there was a good opportunity for the finance committee, which I was on, to feed into that. What is the role of this committee in relation to that summit? There is a lot of expertise in different areas on this committee in terms of business.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is good. I welcome the Minister's confirmation of the reclassification process for the increased cost of doing business and the power-up grants. Many people in my own constituency in Mayo felt they were unfairly left out of those schemes. How much of those grants was left unclaimed?

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is very important in the design of these grants that businesses or whoever they are intended for are involved in their design so we get it right from the beginning. Is there going to be a publicity campaign around the reclassification to ensure there is nobody left behind who might be eligible for them?

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Particularly as we incentivise actions in terms of climate change, I was talking to the Irish Hotels Federation today and they were talking about the restrictions that are put on the sizes. I was struck by the cap on the number of employees for certain businesses. The more emissions you have, the more you want to reduce them by. They should be included in incentives as well. It should not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. People may think this is a bland subject, but it is a subject that we have seen is critically important. That probably relates to my first question. Obviously, we had the Anglo Irish Bank situation, where EY was auditing and failed to report to protect Irish interests. What is different now in the banking system? Could we have another Anglo...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The other question I want to ask is about companies operating outside the country, for example, the Carillion situation, where that company operated under UK audit oversight. That obviously cost millions upon millions. Contractors and subcontractors were deeply impacted by that, as well as employees of those companies. What do we have in place in that regard? What kind of collaboration do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Say proceedings have been taken or there has been a big fine in another jurisdiction, has IAASA any oversight of that? How does the Government then work in allocating projects for such firms? What protections are in place if an auditing firm is fined in another jurisdiction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How much collaboration does IAASA have with those who have oversight of auditors within other jurisdictions? Is there shared information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If we have really good standards here but they are not so good in another jurisdiction, does IAASA have another oversight of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a brief question about the separation with the big four. It is obviously the big four we are talking about in the main. It is specifically about the approach we have here in terms of the ethical wall. There is no enforced structural split, but the UK and some other jurisdictions are considering a mandatory split. Is that something we should be considering here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I do not want to take up the Chair's time or that of anybody else on the committee. Do the witnesses think we should be following the UK in the same way with a mandatory split?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay, so it is on the table but we have not pursued it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are protections.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I commend the students who gathered outside the gates this evening and the students who are here this evening, including the new student union representatives, for pushing back against this desperate situation. Parents and students need to know how much they will be paying in nine weeks time. They need to know this now. People have to budget. Members of this Government do not seem to get...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The fact we are here today discussing amendments so soon after the Government's watershed planning Act of 2024 confirms that it did not get the reforms right first time. Sinn Féin called for additional scrutiny back then and, par for the course, we were not listened to. The issues this Bill seeks to address should have been part of the discussions on the original legislation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with British Ambassador (8 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sorry because I had to drop out. My colleague, Senator Murphy, has gone through the issues we raised in the private session. I thank the ambassador for his time here. I am glad he enjoyed it. I also thank him for his interest in all of the Twenty-six Counties. Obviously, my absolute desire is that we will have a British ambassador some time soon who will cover all the Thirty-two...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of proposed changes to the school bus service for a school (details supplied); if she is aware that parents have been informed by Bus Éireann that the drop-off is being changed; the rationale for this change which will mean pupils will have to walk 1.1 kilometres to access transport; if a safety assessment has been...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Apologies have been received from Deputy Catherine Callaghan. The joint committee is continuing its pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the defence (amendment) Bill 2025. I welcome on behalf of the committee Mr. Stephen Kelly from the Peace and Neutrality Alliance, and Ms Niamh Ní Bhriain from the Transnational Institute. They are very welcome. The witnesses are here...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Go raibh maith agat. I call Ms Ní Bhriain.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Go raibh maith agat. I open the meeting now to questions from members. Each member will have seven minutes and it is up to individuals to use their time however they so wish. Non-members will have five minutes. I call Deputy Brian Stanley.