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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 576. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help staff employed directly in the public sector each year since 2001, in tabular form. [21158/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (9 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 723. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Government expenditure on the free fees initiative contributes towards calculations of Government spending on research and development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21149/23]

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I commend my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, not only on all the work he has put into this Private Members' motion, but on trying to combat energy poverty and deprivation over the past months. For more than five months now I have been highlighting the need to tax electricity companies for the obscene profits and to put that money towards reducing people's bills. Sinn Féin has been warning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IBEC and Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I listened to some of the discussion in the office before I came down. It is a subject that really interests me. Many of the things that were outlined including career guidance, silo thinking and the architecture that is needed to address this can be done through the National Training Fund. We need to really look at this. I have been looking at it deeply for the last two years. We are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IBEC and Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I need to know what IBEC has been getting back from the Minister on this; take all of that as a given. What have each of the Ministers given to IBEC on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IBEC and Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are on the PhD researchers and the review that is coming up and what is needed there in order to be able to solve the issues. We talk the talk - and I know there is a difference between the third level institutions and what IBEC and SFI do - but we have to better support PhD researchers in Ireland, both nationally and internationally, if we are going to remain in that space. I am afraid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IBEC and Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There is a €307 million gap. We are talking about €1.5 billion here and there is a €307 million gap in further and higher education. Surely it is not beyond the wit of everyone to be able to match those two things up and get on with what we need to get on with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The vote in the Dáil is imminent. As our guests have rightly stated, the cost of servicing the debt is the real burden. I am glad we have an opportunity to talk about that today. Does making the debt service costs the key indicator for corrective action have implications for the monetary policy within the eurozone? Would it give monetary policy an even greater role in fiscal rules,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the debt servicing costs and what we need to do into the future, does Dr. Sweeney anticipate that those costs, as a percentage of Government expenditure, will increase? Has it been modelled?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will it be more important?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What about 2025 to 2030? Has any modelling been done for those years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Would Dr. Sweeney be more concerned about the 2025 to 2030 period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is alarming to think that the EU could use the fiscal rules to push certain economic agendas outside that of the normal, democratic pathway. I refer to issues such as a higher retirement age, for example, among other challenges. How could the fiscal rules be designed in a way that allows for corrective action that would not mean opening up threats to democracy and the sovereignty of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could Dr. Sweeney speak to the challenges we have around the regional deficits? On one hand, there is the EU European Regional Development Fund, ERDF, funding and the 60% that is allowed for areas in transition, such as the west and the north west. On the other hand, there are rules. Can Dr. Sweeney see a situation where there would be a loosening of those rules?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. At least it has some flexibility. I am finished with my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If I could just make a closing comment on what Dr. Sweeney said, while it is absolutely correct, we cannot look at planning in isolation and not also invest in transport, particularly in rail. There are opportunities now, with the all-island rail review, to do just that. To ignore transport is a mistake.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Examination of EU Fiscal Rules: TASC (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Obviously that is what this presents for us, in terms of investment in infrastructure that we have not had heretofore. We need to maximise the opportunities around climate change and climate action like renewable energy.