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Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This Bill is the first substantive credit union legislation since 2011 and a first step in delivering the commitments in the programme for Government for credit unions. They have been waiting for that for a long time. That said, the Bill will require substantial amendments if we are to get this legislation for this vitally important sector and make the most of the wonderful national and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This evening, Sinn Féin will table a motion calling on the Government to address the deterioration of ambulance services. This is nowhere more evident than in my own county of Mayo. The National Ambulance Service has warned that unless the Government acts, it will have insufficient resources to respond to the projected demand and the response times will continue to increase. We need...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [10252/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the special European Council meeting on 9 and 10 February 2023. [10253/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the Government's plan to implement a windfall tax. I am seeking clarity on the matter because I have been unable to get a straight answer from the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan. When I submitted written questions to the Minister in December, he seemed to rule out bringing in a windfall tax on electricity companies despite the record profits. A couple of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No, but I have been to some of the colleges, such as the Atlantic Technological University, ATU, with which I am very familiar and the ETBs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad apprenticeships were brought up, but I could not accept the mothers of Ireland are to blame for the issue. There is a combination of things. Obviously, it speaks to what was said earlier on, in that career guidance must be in schools. It is not good enough having one career guidance teacher. As fantastic as the career guidance teacher may be, he or she could be spread over too...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their statements. I like the model being described with regard to Errigal College in Donegal and the feeder national schools. There is something in this that needs to be put in the mainstream. I very much think it is the way forward, particularly for physics. At that stage in the formation of young people's minds we can get them interested in problem-solving,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Tax Code (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rate of taxation the Government plans to set above the minimum rate of 33% outlined in the Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854, in relation to the windfall tax that will be applied to 2022 profits of fossil fuel production companies; if consideration will be given to ring-fencing a portion of the revenue for the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Tax Code (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a windfall tax will be applied to the 2022 profits of electricity companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9879/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 14 February 2023, if he will consider extending the review of the mobility aids grant and the housing aid for older people grant to look at the grant limits, given the increase in construction costs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9541/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (23 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 27. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps she is taking to address the growing challenges libraries face in affording e-books and the increasingly restrictive terms applied by publishers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9275/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (23 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 50. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on the very short application window for the community recognition fund 2023, launched on 14 February, with a closing date for submission of expressions of interest of 24 February 2023; how such a short timeframe is considered acceptable for applications to a fund offering a minimum of €25,000; her further views on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: White Papers (23 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 146. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reasons for excluding domestically trading companies from direct financial assistance to facilitate expansion or growth activities in the White Paper on Enterprise 2022-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9274/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of vacancies in both CAMHS mental health intellectual disability, community mental health teams in an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9289/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to ask about the affordability of the HPV vaccine, particularly where GPs prescribe it and the patient cannot afford to pay the price of €600. I have raised this issue several times. How important is it, when a clinician recommends that somebody needs to have, and should have, the HPV vaccine, that we make the vaccine affordable? On the previous occasion we met we talked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I suggest that we go to the witnesses, Acting Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Excellent. Hopefully, the message will go out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Maybe in answering some of the other questions, the AICRI might shape the committee more on what a co-centre would look like.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will keep my comments very brief because there are a lot of experts in the room and we want to hear from them. Like we did on the previous occasion the delegation was before the committee, we remember Professor Paddy Johnson and the key role he played in the signing of the memorandum of understanding, MOU. Every time we discuss this matter, we will remember and acknowledge the huge role...