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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister promised that the scheme would be retrospective. We have at least one homeowner in Mayo who had to conduct works to stop their house from falling down, before the original scheme opened. The Minister promised a retrospective element. Where is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is a very significant issue and it needs to be in this scheme. I ask the Department to please look into this. Many people in Mayo are concerned that the thresholds will exclude some people from the scheme. There is a visual impact to this. People will have to sit and wait and watch their homes while they further deteriorate, knowing that they are going to have to rebuild them at some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In providing that, the scheme will exclude people and will ask people to continue in the torturous situation where they have to watch and wait for the cracks to get just a little bit larger before the scheme is done. That must be looked at. I want to give an example of a real-life situation regarding the idea of 100%. This is not a made-up story; this is absolutely real. It is a home in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am really sorry but I have been ten years dealing with this and I am running out of patience. How can we call the scheme 100% when we have this real-life situation of a €102,000 shortfall? I could give other examples but this is a specific one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not a 100% scheme. Mr. Ó Coigligh spoke about "the vast majority". I know this is a political situation and there are people involved in devising the scheme. Mr. Ó Coigligh said the vast majority of those who need help will get the financial assistance they need, except for some of them. The test for this scheme has always been that everybody who was impacted would have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have them here, if we can have the rationale for them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. I am asking about the rationale. Did the Department ask the SCSI for a rationale for it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No, it is not. Honest to God, I think Mr. Ó Coigligh has come in here-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is disgraceful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It really is outrageous for the homeowners in Mayo

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This morning, I spoke to nurses about their pre-budget submission. Not only were safe staffing levels and the need for legislation raised as being necessary, but they told me of nurses being forced to live hours away from their places of work, being exhausted going home at night, barely existing while paying enormous rents, never having a hope of owning their own homes, and more and more...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (12 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 262. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget allocation to section 38 organisation in 2023; the share of allocation used for pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34585/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (12 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 263. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget allocation to section 39 organisation in 2023; the share of allocation used for pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34586/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is a useful discussion. I thank the Ministers for their statements. In his statement, the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, said that the expected global growth of 2.7% is the lowest annual rate since the global financial crisis. If we were to get an external shock, not even a huge one, would we be prepared for it as things stand?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I say it because I am mindful of the time just before the financial crash when I put to an economist our overreliance on the construction sector. He said everything would be fine and we would have a soft landing, except, and he almost whispered it, if there were an external economic shock. Sometimes we see the parallels. I do not want to dwell too much on it.