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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I wish to express my support of Senator Grace O'Sullivan's comments and concerns about Hinkley power plant. It is very important that submissions are made. Perhaps we should consider making a submission from this House on such a serious situation. We can discuss that in an informal way, but it is very important that the voices of Irish citizens are heard. I doubt that there would be much...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We in Sinn Féin are very disappointed that agreement has not been reached in the North. I find it very difficult to listen to what Deputy Micheál Martin has to say on the subject. He has never sought to be constructive around the talks and has no credibility whatsoever. Sinn Féin has engaged fully and we have worked in good faith with the DUP. We have stretched ourselves...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: No, I am not.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Senator Craughwell thinks that somebody swearing allegiance to a foreign queen is going to solve the impasse.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: When the Senator is President he can do that work.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Fine Gael could always run its own candidates up there. We could see how much support they would get.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: President Norris.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I wish I shared Senator Coffey's confidence. I spent yesterday in Mayo and I could not do something as simple as send an email all day. The truth is that both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have failed people in the context of broadband. The facts speak for themselves. We have announcement fatigue. In 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, under Fianna Fáil, and right through the Fine Gael...

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will have to move to Cavan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Our Public Service 2020: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The first thing I want to ask the Minister about is the general data protection regulation, which he mentioned only in passing. This is a hugely important piece of work but it is being pushed through the Oireachtas, which is a mistake. Within the Seanad, we had a one-week turnaround from publication to discussion of the Bill. It deals with really important and substantial stuff. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Our Public Service 2020: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It would but if we are looking at Brexit and then at something like JobPath, the companies to which the service has been tendered out will be outside the EU once Brexit takes place. That worries me greatly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Our Public Service 2020: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am deeply concerned. One of the reasons for that is the secrecy and lack of transparency around the original contracts in the first instance. We have tried and tried to get information and are continually fobbed off with assertions that commercial sensitivity applies. We do not know. There are very vulnerable people in the community whose personal data are given to these companies in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Our Public Service 2020: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is why we should take as much time as is needed to get it right, ensure that all aspects are covered and take Brexit and other external factors into account.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I know from some of today's media coverage that Benefacts has raised the fact that charities are not publishing their financial information in full. The Companies Act 2014 made it possible for charities to produce abridged accounts, and it is true that most of them do that instead of publish full accounts. This approach may be encouraged by accountants, and if charities legally do not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will not ask any more questions for now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I want to ask a question about non-profit organisations that have their registered offices outside the State, for example, in Britain. How does that fit in with what Benefacts is doing? Will they be included?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: However, they will not be compelled to be included in Benefacts' database. It is an opt-in system. Is that correct?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I listened with interest to Senator Mark Daly's contribution and agree with everything he said. In the first instance, I suggest he have a serious and indepth conversation with his party leader, Deputy Micheál Martin, who has repeatedly refused to engage in anything proactive to do with the North.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes, but he probably attended a DUP conference.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Deputy Micheál Martin has repeatedly been asked to-----