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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,...

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will address a number of points raised by the Minister and the Minister of State. Several points were raised about equity. I understand these concerns and that is exactly why the scheme we are proposing is temporary and targeted. It provides relief on the increased interest costs that mortgage holders have faced as a result of rate hikes since June 2022 to ensure that those at the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Consultations (25 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 116. To ask the Taoiseach the details of each time his Department, or public bodies under the aegis of his Department, enlisted the services of consultants in 2022; and the purpose and value of each contract [18740/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider ending the practice of means-testing PhD stipends for recipients of one-parent family and jobseeker's transitional payments by implementing the same disregard she granted recipients of disability allowance and their spouses/partners in 2021; the estimated cost of implementing such a disregard; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider expanding eligibility for the SUSI grant scheme to part-time and online courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19153/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (25 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a 1% increase in the SUSI maintenance grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19154/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Last week, the eyes of the world were on Ballina in County Mayo when Joe Biden came to visit us. This week, a report in the Mayo Newsstates a Ballina mother is begging for help as the prospect of having nowhere to live becomes more and more real with every passing day, as she talks about the lifting of the eviction ban. She said she has never begged for anything in her life but she is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is not true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I warmly welcome Dr. Boland and Dr. Fitzpatrick to this interesting discussion. It is the inaugural meeting of the committee's work on the perspectives of constitutional change. We are looking at the part we can play to facilitate the discussion and debate and the actions on the necessary planning for the future in terms of finance and economics, healthcare, environment, natural resources,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In the same way, I suppose, as it does for expats living in France or anywhere else in the world. I know there is a deadline coming up shortly for British and Irish people here who claim British pensions. Dr. Fitzpatrick and Dr. Charles O'Sullivan assert that a constitutional reunification process provides an opportunity to build a new welfare state from the ground up, prioritising the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My next question is for Dr. Boland. Are there practical ways the committee can support the work he is doing, the work of the ARINS project and the vast array of work being done by other academics in planning the constitutional future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is very important, in that context, to have a framework within which all this work can be done. That is why the work between the two Departments is so important. Indeed, the shared island unit would also have a role there. It is important to have something ongoing that can be built on to capture all of this expertise and bring it together. I note references to Professor Mike...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to acknowledge that Senator Black suggested both witnesses attend. I am grateful to her for that, in addition to her contribution in the Seanad. Many of the social welfare payments are not drawn down in this jurisdiction because of asymmetrical information and the system being too complex. While on the face of it we may think we have all these payments, are they really getting to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 20. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on any progress he has made in returning dentists to the DTSS; the total number of dentists in the system in 2020 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19034/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 72. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reverse cuts and increase the number of beds in community and district hospitals in County Mayo to address the issues of patient flow and delayed discharges from Mayo University Hospital, as highlighted by HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18486/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 138. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify scoring under the scheme for farmers with commonage land where there is active turf cutting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18495/23]