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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: 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 (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 (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 (27 Mar 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I commend all the parents and families of children and adults with autism, this being autism awareness week. They do Trojan work. There are huge gaps in the services and supports and these need to be addressed for families trying to support loved ones with autism. That is something we will continue to work on. In that context I commend my colleague, Deputy Ó Caoláin, on tabling...

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 thank Mr. Ashmore for his presentation. I read it prior to the meeting. I will hone in particularly on agricultural lending. The criteria for ineligibility means farmers in financial difficulty are excluded. That seems a bit peculiar to me. I imagine a lending situation would arise where a person is in financial difficulty. How does SBCI assess whether somebody is in financial...

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: Farmers who were in financial difficulty were not able to access this funding so it was almost the case that if they did not need the funding, they could access it. In terms of growth and development it can play a role. The perception was the funding would be accessible by those who were in financial difficulty, often through no fault of their own.

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: Is it available to fishermen?

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 important that it is considered because there are many opportunities and challenges in fishing. I want to get a handle on the numbers. What are the numbers for the agriculture cashflow support loan scheme for the BMW area? I take it that it is one loan per-----

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.