Results 541-560 of 4,002 for speaker:Rose Conway Walsh

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is there another coming?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does the Leader reckon?

Seanad: Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities 2015-2024: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: As the Minister of State is in the House, I want to raise with him the issue of the Rehab services. Like many of the people who depend on those services and the people who work in Rehab, I am extremely worried around the funding situation. I ask the Minister of State to comment on that. I know he has had some meetings with the organisation and I hope some progress has been made. The...

Seanad: Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities 2015-2024: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Very well. I ask the Minister of State to comment It is a little aside from the matter under discussion but it is all related. I want to concentrate on people with disabilities who reach the age of 18 and find there are not appropriate training spaces for them or the people who provide training do not have the expertise that is needed. I refer in particular to people on the autism...

Seanad: Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities 2015-2024: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: There should be more people with autism in politics.

Seanad: Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities 2015-2024: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: We would save ourselves millions. We have spent €500 million on tribunals. Imagine if we had people there who did not lie. We could have saved all that money. They tend to live in the moment and they rarely-----

Seanad: Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities 2015-2024: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is true. We need to think outside the box in terms of how we capture the expertise of people with autism and the other conditions I mentioned. They rarely judge others. They are passionate about what they are focused on, whatever it might be, and they are not tied to social expectations. They have terrific memories. A couple of weeks ago I read about a young chap with autism. I do...

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. It is important to reiterate that everybody wants to ensure there is broadband provision for people in rural areas. There are important issues to be discussed about how we achieve that, but to claim that people on this side of the House do not want broadband provision extended is juvenile. We have been asking for this provision for years. The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I again want to talk about the drug Spinraza. I very much welcome the decision made by the British Government and the National Health Service, NHS, to provide it for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, SMA. It absolutely and definitively puts the onus on the Government and the HSE to approve the use of the drug here. I am delighted that another jurisdiction has reached a deal with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: We do not have time.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does the Deputy Leader agree that the British decision is relevant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the representatives for the opening statement. How much profit did the bank make in this jurisdiction last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: However, it made €23 million in the first quarter of this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: How much corporation tax did the bank pay out of the €15 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Corporation tax on the €15 million was €1.5 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes. The dividend the bank paid to the RBS seems quite high at €1.5 billion in January.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: There is also a rationale when people look at that in terms of €1.5 billion going to RBS, which is 66% owned by the British Government. On the one hand, that money is being given to RBS and, on the other, the bank is trying to get vacant possessions and selling properties to vulture funds, which is causing a great deal of hardship. Is Mr. Stanley saying they are not connected at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: The bank has €292 million in deferred tax assets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: That will be reclaimed over nine years.