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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Sir John Major (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Looking at it a quarter of a century on the other side of the agreement, we question here what co-guarantor means and the responsibilities on both Governments to make sure those agreements are fully implemented. It is a concern. Also, many of the challenges people in the North face, even right now, would not be as challenging were those agreements to be implemented in full. We already...

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Rural Independent Group for bringing forward this important motion. That is not surprising, seeing as I come from County Mayo, where we have many coastal communities. Those communities are in places such as Erris, Achill, Clare Island, Ballycastle, Porturlin and right along the coast. One of the major concerns they have had for years is that they have had to stand and watch as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need this to work for homeowners. There is clear evidence, as the Central Bank has warned on many occasions, that the waterfall of alternative repayment arrangements has not been sufficiently worked through by lenders. The easy reflex option of sale to third parties and vulture funds has been used, rather than finding sustainable solutions for borrowers. There is a cohort of borrowers...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish both of the Deputies well in the future and congratulate them on their new roles. I wish to bring to the Minister's attention, under the section of small businesses, that agriculture and farming probably make up most of the small businesses in rural Ireland. I wish to bring to the Minister's attention, in terms of the transfer of bank accounts from Ulster Bank and from banks that are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. Will the Minister intervene with the banks and make them aware that they were supposed to do everything possible to make that transition as smooth as possible, but farmers are now finding that they do not have the overdraft facilities they had before. They are in real difficultly around that issue.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the assessments that have and will be undertaken with regards to the Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears, CCMA, including the suite of alternative repayment arrangements; his plans to give the code full legal effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3100/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minister outline the assessments that have and will be undertaken with regard to the code of conduct on mortgage arrears, including the suite of alternative repayment arrangements? What are the Minister's plans to give the code full legal effect?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. There are serious problems in how what the Minister's spoke about is being adhered to and how it is being enforced. The issues are well-documented in the Free Legal Advice Centres, FLAC, From Pillar to Post series published in the last number of years. As the Minister said, it is crucial to ensure that the CCMA is fit for purpose, especially in the context of the...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with Deputies Tully and Carthy. The farmers will make the assessment as to whether the Minister is listening to them or what he is doing for them. I thank my colleague, Deputy Carthy, for bringing this motion to the floor of the House. The Minister is not listening. People in rural Ireland, including Mayo, are completely perplexed and alarmed by what he is trying to do...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The crux of matter seems to be the auditing, showing the exact usage and the measurement issue. If we can prove to the Minister of State or Revenue, which I believe we can beyond any doubt whatsoever, the exact usage, the number of units and the exact costs and do absolute comparisons in the same way that is done elsewhere, can this scheme be applied retrospectively to those who have missed...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Government has made a big mistake by not including LPG in the TBESS, which is designed to help viable businesses to survive in the current spike in energy prices. This has excluded many rural businesses unfairly from the support scheme. The Minister of State must appreciate the fear and anger caused in rural Ireland when businesses were informed by Revenue that the TBESS will only apply...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Go raibh maith agat to Deputy Ó Murchú for conceding. I was not here for the whole duration of the meeting, but I was listening from the office. I thank our guests for the work that they are doing and the important contributions that they made today and those they continue to make. The reason I am here is to ask the guests’ advice in particular around the children who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What are Dr. Roddy's thoughts on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is awful that people have to sometimes depend on the media to highlight these cases. None of us would want our families exposed to the media and everything else that goes with it. Why should children-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Exactly, but what if people in rural Ireland and that is the only choice they have? They do not have a choice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We must make sure that for children who are at home and cannot access education, somebody is responsible or some group of people is accountable because when I put this and many other cases to the Minister, the response will be that millions are being allocated. Yet, the millions do not get to the child who is at home, regressing. We all know how important intervention is. As well as that,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Those resources must be there. I thank the witnesses and I may speak to them outside.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Hello to everyone in Mayo who is on the screen - to Mr. Gilligan, Mr. Shevlin and Mr. Kelly. I thank the Cathaoirleach for the opportunity to ask these questions. I will first ask a number of short questions. In terms of housing demand, given there are 1,203 on the housing waiting list, are those individuals or families? Are they on HAP and RAS, or are HAP and RAS additional to that?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Therefore, HAP and RAS are included in the housing transfer list.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Therefore, the full number is 2,726 for County Mayo.