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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is different from the reconciliation fund.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can you get both, though? Can you get some funding from the reconciliation fund and some from the - what did Ms O'Donoghue call it? The civic-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I see opportunities as well in PEACEPLUS when that is open because it will cover the whole island, not just the councils confined to the Border, as used to be the case. The programme will be spread to all local authorities. I want to ask the witnesses about biodiversity. What if a community has a biodiversity project in respect of which it wants to do a twinning with a community in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That would be great. I thank Mr. Duffy. Ms O'Donoghue talked about hydrogen. That is really interesting. We all recognise that we have to tackle climate change on an all-island basis, but we really need the all-island hydrogen strategy to be able to do that, to be able to advance renewables in the way we need and to capitalise on the Atlantic economic corridor. I am really glad about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I commend what is coming from the ESRI, notwithstanding the data gaps that are there. It is excellent. The CSO has put out a call for consultations as to what it might do differently or better. We put the request in through the finance committee and the Committee on Budgetary Oversight that it would have better congruence in respect of the data it is producing with the data in the North so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. There are still gaps there. Has the shared island unit any role to play in the European Court of Human Rights and the different movement there in respect of the British Government's detraction of rights and how we can secure uniformity of rights across the island? Is that something the shared island unit looks at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to share rights across the island.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have taken up a lot of time. I thank the witnesses.

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Good Friday Agreement was a monumental achievement by all involved. It showed courageous leadership and has brought us to a really good place for the past 25 years. One of the shortcomings of the agreement was the failure to have a proper implementation structure. Now, 25 years on, many elements of the agreement are yet to be implemented. I refer in particular to the bill of rights...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I second that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Ministers for their presentation. There is consensus about how things need to be managed, going forward, and the responsibilities that brings. I want to check one figure in respect of the core year-on-year increase. If there is €4.3 billion, of which €2.5 billion is already spent in terms of demographics, that leaves only €1.8 billion for core spending.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That was what I was thinking about in terms of people's expectations of the budget. I am glad we had a discussion of the National Reserve Fund and I look forward to the scoping paper in that regard. There is an awful lot to be learned from the Norwegian model in terms of how it has evolved. Norway has set out the mistakes it made along the way and we can learn from those international...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The surplus in the National Training Fund will, therefore, just keep on building. We are asking employers to continue to contribute to that fund. It is difficult then to understand why it cannot be used as intended.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We will come back to that. I will follow on from what Deputy Canney said about investment and the fact that the western region is in transition. Ireland was allocated €396 million of EU funding for European Regional Development Fund, ERDF, programmes that the Minister mentioned. When national co-financing is included, it allows the spending of €850 million. The north-west...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I take the Minister's earlier point about refinancing our debt as bonds. That is in the context of their value. In terms of GDP or the expenditure ratio, do matter look any better?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I will finish up because I know Deputy Ryan has been waiting for ages to contribute.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That amount is already set aside so are we looking at €1.8 billion in discretionary core spending?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that. I am looking at the overall objectives of what we are trying to achieve. It is about how much we put into a reserve fund and how much we decide to invest in projects that are going to act as catalysts. When we look at an overall reserve fund, we must consider how we are going to accommodate what we hope to get from developments in renewable energy that we did not get,...