Results 21-40 of 6,604 for speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (3 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports he will provide to those businesses which cannot secure insurance; the steps he is taking to reduce the cost of business insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6598/25]

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the Bill but also encourage the Minister of State to accept the amendments to it. Being from County Mayo and rural Ireland, and Storm Éowyn was mentioned by Deputy Doherty, I see at first hand the importance of a Bill such this and the Bill having a legal standing for businesses' acceptance of cash. I commend the post offices on the Trojan work they did when they did not have...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution: Value Added Tax (2 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. We are all trying to get ready for the announcement at 9 p.m. That is the situation we are in. I apologise for being late. I understand the absolute necessity to extend the 9% VAT rate on electricity and gas. The Eurostat figures released in October last year show that the average energy bill for an Irish household is €500 higher than the EU...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (2 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I listened carefully to the Minister's answer to my colleague Deputy Kenny. The principal issue of the categorisation of the land parcels still stands. The measure aims to protect peat but the classification of all parcels of land with more than 50% peat soils being subject to GAEC will severely disadvantage farmers across Mayo and the western seaboard. I heard the Minister deny that but...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (2 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We want to work with the Minister on this matter, but he must understand that there is a legacy of mistrust. I come from a severely designated area where people now cannot get planning permissions. It is getting worse with planning permission refusals these days because something is an NHA or an SAC. Parts of Mayo, including lands around Carrowteige and the Mullet Peninsula, for example,...

Support for Householders, Businesses and Farmers Affected by Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister will be very familiar with what I am going to say. I acknowledge the work he has done on this scheme so far but we need to tidy it up and sort out the inconsistencies. As my colleague Deputy Kerrane was just saying, some people are getting some while others are getting nothing at all. Tonight, I got a message from somebody whose roof was really damaged and who has been waiting...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am also deeply concerned about what happened with Mothers Against Genocide protesting peacefully on Mother's Day. I want to give the Taoiseach the time to answer as to why the escalation of this peaceful protest took place. Very powerful advocates on behalf of women and children are being slaughtered in Palestine.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 24. To ask the Taoiseach how he intends to increase the coordination role of his Department in national security. [13819/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The lack of urgency in the Government's response to the storm was quite bizarre. The storm was on 21 January, and the Taoiseach said there was a meeting on 22 January, but - and maybe he can correct this - warnings of the ferocity of the storm were sent out days in advance, yet there was no effective co-ordinated plan in the aftermath. I will tell the Taoiseach what I think the problem was....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements he has had with the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in the days before, during and after storm Éowyn. [12470/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements he has had with the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in the days before, during and after, storm Éowyn. [13818/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (1 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the meetings he has engaged in with international organisations, including the United Nations and the European Union, concerning the appalling atrocities inflicted on innocent people in Gaza. [15576/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Qualifications Recognition (27 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In that case, that person was paid less than her counterparts and is documented as an unqualified teacher. My question is: how can she be registered to teach with the Teaching Council yet be branded as an unqualified teacher? It just does not make sense. In October last, the Australian Government announced that the doctors from Britain, Ireland and New Zealand will have their ability to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Qualifications Recognition (27 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, to fast-track. They brought in a policy to fast-track. Why can we not do the same here?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Qualifications Recognition (27 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It was for the medical professions - for doctors in particular. It was for doctors from Britain. The doctors from Ireland are being fast-tracked there; why can we not fast-track our own who are living abroad?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Qualifications Recognition (27 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 12. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the process of getting qualifications obtained in Britain recognised in Ireland since the cessation of the mutual recognition of professional qualifications in 2021. [14517/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Qualifications Recognition (27 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My question relates to the process of getting qualifications obtained in Britain recognised in this State, particularly since the cessation in 2021 of the mutual recognition of professional qualifications. The Minister's Department serves as the national co-ordinator and the national assistance centre for EU Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Qualifications Recognition (27 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is a real problem, including in a North-South context. We want to encourage student mobility across the island, which is how things are progressing. However, there appears to be a particular issue in regard to the health and social care professionals regulation body, CORU. In 2023, there were media reports that qualified Irish physiotherapists returning to Ireland from Britain, having...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (27 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I did not have enough time on accommodation earlier. We need a change of thinking here. Student accommodation has to be an integral part of third level education and it has to be an investment. I do not think we need another strategy, even though I welcome that, because we have enough strategies on student accommodation to pave the way from here to Mayo. We need the investment. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (27 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I also wish the Minister well in his role. I previously held the role my colleague, Deputy McGettigan, now holds and I very much enjoyed it. It is an area in which the Minister could make great progress, not least with regard to accommodation. There are serious problems with digs accommodation. That is why my colleagues, Deputies Ó Broin and Farrell, introduced legislation in the...