Results 41-60 of 218 for long speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When we heard from representatives of the central bank of Norway, they spoke about the long-term trend towards falling real rate of returns from the wealth fund. It has over time shifted more towards equities as a share of the fund to maintain the real rate of the return and that is obviously the higher risk Mr. Gilvarry spoke mentioned. What will be the target real rate for the return of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ..., PPP, contracts or leasing contracts or privatisation like we see happening with, say, the primary care centres. These types of decisions reduce costs in year 1 but are more costly in the long term. Would there be a mechanism for allowing the FIF to fund these initiatives? That will have a real long-term saving for the State. The State would save more money than it would in investing...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...to reduce the cost of leasing. Will the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, outline the process the OPW has to go through when it sees an opportunity to purchase an office building and how long that process generally takes?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know that but, as the Minister of State can imagine, people in Crossmolina are asking what is different about the people in Westport. This has been ongoing since 2015, which is too long, but I do not want to go into the conversation again.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The long statement was good and interesting. I will have to leave during the slot to deal with the Finance (No. 2) Bill, so I will just ask Professor McMahon a priority question. Maybe I will have time to contribute again later. Could Professor McMahon outline exactly how he determined that the Government had €850 million in unallocated current expenditure moneys to cover the pay...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...going back and forth with regard to this matter. I am also concerned that the timeframe for the scheme will be four years. That is 48 months. The people of Crossmolina cannot wait that long.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...past April 2024, we will still have high prices even if the rate of inflation decreases. It leaves us in a trap where we are working our way through budget 2024 and it is not progressive in the long run. I invite the other witnesses to speak to the regressive or progressive nature of the budget.

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the ambulances there are taking more than an hour to reach patients. This is being driven by the lack of capacity as well as the lack of home help and community beds. There were 22 people lined along corridors on just one night in July in Mayo University Hospital. Numerous times this year, the hospital has put out warnings about visiting the emergency department due to overcrowding....

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Never has it taken so long for Ministers to say so little of significance. The budget the Ministers have outlined has a wider context, involving international events and economic forces beyond their control. There is another context for the budget, however, one for which they are responsible, namely, the years of successive Governments failing to address the biggest issues people face. One...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...as possible. That is why we are here in September 2023, two years later, and only now seeing legislation. It is quite shocking. I welcome this legislation but it is important to put what it is, and how long it has taken to get here, in context. While the problems were obvious as far back as 2021, the real bumper profits flowed in 2022. Under this so-called windfall gains Bill, the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...research does the Central Bank have on this to be able to tell what the impact of it is? I appreciate that we have limited time. There are only a few of us here and we have been here for quite a long time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...overconcentration on the housing assistance payment, HAP, and the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and the €1 billion per year which we are transferring to the private sector without having any long-term gains from that.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...accommodation by one iota. That is why there are people living in cars. I have a case of a single man who is homeless and living in his car. He is unlikely to be housed by the local authority for a very long time and has no emergency accommodation. I am dealing with another case involving a single parent and their three children who are being evicted. They have been unable to access...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Poverty Impact Assessment (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...for its people. We must see what the reality is like. It is not only to be seen in respect of fuel poverty but also in fuel deprivation. We are in July but we will be heading into the winter again before too long. We are already conscious of the number of people who are scared to put on their heating and live in the way they should be living, enjoying a quality of life. This is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. McGann for his statement. I apologise that he was kept waiting for so long. In the future-proofing document, the Department stated, "In 2019, the Government established the National Reserve Fund; the objective was to provide sufficient funds to mobilise counter-cyclical fiscal support in the event of a severe economic downturn." Does the National Reserve Fund face any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It has been a long and arduous journey, as it has been for the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance (5 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is important to say that it is not the engineers themselves but the limitations they have to work to that is of concern to us. We are also concerned about the damage threshold in terms of how long people have to wait. People know that remedial action has to be taken on their house at some point but they are being told to wait until it gets bad enough. We need to make this scheme as fair...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: .... As the witnesses say, the Department's litmus test is that it is readable, understandable and accessible for people. It goes some way to having accountability. Although there is still a long way to go in some Departments, I want to commend the Departments that are good at it. There needs to be an exchange of learning across Departments. I also commend the Department of Public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...each time for approval. In the space of one minute, they made initial payments of €50, €200, and €400. All told, the account was cleared out. My understanding of that is that there is a long-standing practice that banks monitor suspicious activity, as Mr. Palmer said, particularly on credit cards. However, in the case I have outlined, the Apple Pay account was...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...there are no nursing homes there, then that certainty is gone. This is similar to the home help provision. If we do not have the providers to provide the care, it is of no use whatsoever. I, along with Deputy Cullinane, spoke with the owners of one family-run intergenerational nursing home. It is not just a business. It has operated for 31 years in County Mayo. It is embedded in...