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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the Department examined any PPPs and thought, "We paid over the top for this"? I take it there are a number that are evaluated and scrutinised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would expect there would be a certain amount of continuous evaluation-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----that can be done. An assumption is being made that the asset is handed back in a certain condition. Using that assumption, is it then a case of comparing if it was the right vehicle with which to deliver a particular project? What has Mr. Dorgan been finding in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do we have that evidence? Do we have our counterfactual and what is the actual? Are we measuring it even on an aggregate level just to see that this is the way, despite the expert group, the IMF, saying it is right in this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know. I will finish on this. I wonder if there is somebody somewhere who is looking at this model of delivery to examine it. Are they saying that the expert group and the IMF said this and therefore this is the way we are going? They know we are right on that basis because they have a separate column with the evidence. They know if it is a plus or a minus or where we are at, while...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Would the NDFA get back to the Department? Is that the pathway? It would get back and say-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It needs to be done in a very systematic way and we need to have an aggregate of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This has been a very interesting and useful discussion but I believe there are gaps there. We are right to ask about the profits which are being made. We have to ensure value for money and to continuously weigh up policy against what we are delivering. I am not a supporter of PPPs unless there is a particular expertise or advancement in technology, which is something we are trying to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My apologies; I did not see Deputy O'Callaghan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That after five years. I am trying to get to the bottom of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Would you mind if I speak next?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Thank you, Chair. Unfortunately, I have a meeting as well, with the Department of public expenditure. We are delighted to have the witnesses here, and I thank Ms Weir and Ms McCrory for the effort in coming down. I am more familiar with the Falls Road than I am with the Shankill but I have been to both and I see a real opportunity here in the work we are doing because it is quite similar...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Really, what Ms Weir is saying is that the two Governments need to drive it on and to overcome whatever barriers or opposition there is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is a very concrete thing. I propose that from this committee we write to the Taoiseach to ask that the Irish Government play its full part in that and start that process around the bill of rights and, I think, especially-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The witnesses refer to the legacy Bill, and we hope that Keir Starmer, if he gets in, will keep his promise of repealing the legacy Act.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It certainly does not serve anybody, and we will do our part on this committee to ensure that promise is kept. Did Ms McCrory want to say anything on the bill of rights?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In the context of an all-Ireland charter of rights, as Ms McCrory mentioned, we have just had local elections. On Mayo County Council in 2024 and after all this time, we are coming back with 27 men and three women. While the challenges are certainly different, I just despair for us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is a hard issue. Ms Weir is exactly right. I have looked in depth at this. There is a direct correlation between the level of education of a woman in the household and how that impacts on young people in that household. Tackling the whole knot in education and the training group is something we need to address. I look forward to continuing this conversation with Ms Weir when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The witnesses were ahead of their time.