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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.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: We have to remember that the next financial crisis - and we can be absolutely certain that there will be another one - will not be because of what caused the last one. It will be something else. The question for today and for TASC is whether we have enough flexibility within the fiscal rules and EU monetary policy to make the adjustments that will be necessary, because the last time we were...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the deflator that is applied to expenditure projections by his Department in order to estimate the cost of maintaining the current level of public services and benefits in real terms in future years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20370/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to expand the provision of co-educational, non-denominational post-primary education in Westport, County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20369/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would also refer to the report done by Professor John Bradley and the work he did in proving this was a viable, shovel-ready project, and that the costings of it were much less than what was cited in the other reports. I cannot tell the Minister of State how important it is, as Deputy Kenny said, to keep the existing rail network from Claremorris to Collooney. Let us not make the mistake...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue. I thank my colleague Deputy Kenny for also raising it. There are a number of issues involved. We know the all-island rail review is due for publishing. I also understand an environmental assessment of the review must be done. I ask that the assessment be done as quickly as possible and that the consultations are completed...