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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Today the Leader in this House referred to the fact that he might need glasses. I seriously think that the Taoiseach needs to wear an ear piece or use something to improve his hearing.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Government, with the continuous help of its Fianna Fáil partners, will no doubt declare confidence in itself. Yesterday, it showed a lack of competence and integrity.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am sorry but there is a terrible interference in my ear.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Maybe the Taoiseach is trying to get through.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: On such a serious issue the public needs to know that capable and honest public representatives are doing their best to remedy the situation. After yesterday's pantomime I doubt if the public has confidence in the competence of the Government. Over the past few days I cannot help but remember all of the really good members of An Garda Síochána throughout this country, those who...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is the Leader directing this at me?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is the truth we want.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: What is the Leader talking about?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: We agree to the amended proposal.

Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I apologise to the Acting Chairman and to the Minister for being late.

Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move:That Seanad Éireann: recognising that: - 632,000 patients were on published and unpublished hospital waiting lists at the end of January 2017; - under the current waiting list system, waiting lists for outpatient appointments, diagnostic tests, day case and inpatient procedures vary drastically from one public hospital to the next; - patients do not know where they stand on...

Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Our motion calls for increased investment in recruitment, vital to clearing waiting lists. Between 2008 and 2015, the health service lost 7,377 workers. This motion was a genuine attempt to offer a solution to the current inhumane problem we have with hospital waiting lists. For Fianna Fáil to put down a nonsensical amendment to dirty the waters is disingenuous beyond belief.

Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will not even need five minutes. I just have a few words from earlier on. I want to thank Minister Harris very much for the spirit in which he is agreeing to take this very positive proposal on board and for putting a six-month time limit on investigating its feasibility, because I think it is a very positive suggestion. We have seen that it works in Portugal. The evidence is there. We...

Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister for agreeing to my request to come before the Seanad today. I appreciate it and that she is busy. I also appreciate the openness and the manner in which she has endeavoured to explain, in a very open way, exactly what has happened from her perspective. The Minister's honesty is refreshing, in the sense of all that has been happening and continues to happen over the...

Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: It certainly challenges my intelligence to tell me that a file of such seriousness was copied and pasted. Is that counsellor still engaged with Tusla? I am not apportioning blame on anybody. I am certainly not apportioning blame on the counsellor. It appears to me that calls were made, in the way other calls were made, but that will come out in the inquiry. Is the counsellor still...

Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: When the Minister spoke directly to the Taoiseach regarding the McCabe case, did she inform the Taoiseach that, inasmuch as it related to allegations of sexual abuse, it referred to an attempt to smear Sergeant Maurice McCabe?

Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Did the Minister refer to how the intention was to smear Sergeant McCabe? When the Minister spoke to the Taoiseach about the matter did she just speak about the allegation of sexual abuse or did she speak about it as being an attempt to smear Sergeant McCabe? Having spoken directly to the Minister, to what extent did the Taoiseach assure her that Tusla would be within the terms of reference...

Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is the counsellor still engaged by the HSE? I am just trying to be helpful in reminding the Minister. Is the counsellor still there? Have any of the staff been suspended?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Returning Emigrant Support Services: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I am a returned emigrant. I returned from London. I am familiar with the great work that both Ms McHugh, in Mulranny, and Mr. Staunton do with the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform. I agree with much of what they are saying. The minute one gets on a boat, as I did quite a long time ago, one loses citizenship. One goes from being an Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Over recent days, the information that has come to light regarding the vilification and what can only be described as inhumane torture of Garda Sergeant McCabe has shocked people right across this nation. At the outset I commend the strength and raw courage of Maurice McCabe, his wife, Lorraine, and their family. Their quest for truth, transparency, openness and honesty on how An Garda...