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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am concerned as well that, where people in very restricted financial situations are desperate to get their homes in some kind of liveable position, that is where the coercion will take place. People who are fortunate enough to be able to afford it may be able to do the full amount, but if there is a link with somebody's financial circumstances, some people may be either blocked out of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. I have to ask the witnesses, if they do not mind - it is not directly bank-related - but have any of them applied for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is Ms McDade coming up against a problem with the meter point reference number, MPRN? There are a lot of people excluded because-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am asking Ms McDade this because there is a particular problem where people have availed of the SEAI grant before, maybe years ago and during the scheme's original days, and that is attached to the MPRN. Now they are being refused for the scheme this time around because they have already availed of it. They are treating that as normal as well. Even though there is a promise of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is exactly the situation I am talking about, where people are being refused on that basis where it is like for like. While some of the piping infrastructure may be reutilised, they are locked out of applying again, and that really has to be rectified. It is something my colleague Deputy Eoin Ó Broin is following up on as well to get that anomaly cleared. I have taken up quite a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is certainly not fact finding, and I can tell Ms Shovlin that as someone who has been dealing with the issue of pyrite in Mayo for about 12 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It has been a long and arduous journey, as it has been for the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is important to say that it is not the engineers themselves but the limitations they have to work to that is of concern to us. We are also concerned about the damage threshold in terms of how long people have to wait. People know that remedial action has to be taken on their house at some point but they are being told to wait until it gets bad enough. We need to make this scheme as fair...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to make the point that this is a very time-sensitive issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are people within the system who have made applications, etc., and I do not want to open the discussion again. There are other issues that allow time, but this is really time-sensitive because the applications are already there. There is the issue of planning permission and the fact houses have already been demolished and so on.

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I commend the A5 Enough is Enough campaign. I thank my colleague, Deputy Doherty, for ensuring we had the opportunity to hear Niall McKenna, Brendan Hurl, Plunkett Nugent, Peter Canavan and, above all, Kate Corrigan today. One of my colleagues said earlier that Kate's was one of the most moving contributions they had ever heard in the audiovisual room. Kate heartbreaking words as she spoke...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On 20 April, I asked the Minister's Department to provide me with details on all consultant contracts of public bodies, and that included RTÉ. Unlike other Departments, however, because I have been putting these questions to everybody, the Department refused to provide that information as it did not see it as the Minister's responsibility to have that level of oversight. That is a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (4 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 28 June 2023, whether the HSE is categorised as a non-commercial State agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32717/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (4 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 28 June 2023, if he will provide a full list of commercial State agencies associated line Department; the total number of employees and the Exchequer allocation for 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32718/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Last week, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement called on the British Government to withdraw the legacy Bill because of the grave concerns all members of that committee had regarding the implications of that Bill. The committee will ask the Irish Government to consider inter-state litigation in the European Court of Human Rights in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (29 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a full breakdown of the NDP projects and costs included in'budgetary decisions for 2023 in the summer economic statement 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31795/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (29 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 200. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he has taken to support the OPW in reducing the number of leased buildings and office spaces following the IGEES review of the OPW's estate in 2022, which found that the cost of building office accommodation is between 29% and 38% lower than the cost of leasing accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (29 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 424. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, in tabular form, a list of Section 39 organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31796/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (29 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 425. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of Section 39 employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31797/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit on the Divergence of Rights and Best Practice on the Island of Ireland: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have two minutes left. We are doing work on the constitutional future. We are working on the future of the economic sector at the moment and we will produce an interim report after that. Obviously, equality and human rights forms part of that work. What came across, particularly in our discussions on taxation and welfare, was that it is time that we envisage something different, and...