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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: All right. I have a number of other areas to cover. We make the assumption, as do the professors, that things will stay the same. If we look at the duplication of services we have had since partition, there would obviously not be two services across the island. This would happen over time. Is there a calculation of what benefits would come from that, what would be saved due to that and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, but obviously when we look at all this we are not doing so over a short term. We are not looking at it over a one-, two- or five-year period. We are looking at it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am a politician as well. This is absolutely critical and I think the witness underestimates politicians in a sense by putting it all into one category. We absolutely know that we need evidence. The issue with this - and obviously the reason it attracted attention - was that for the first time, it used the €20 billion figure. The focus was so narrow that to have a conclusion like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My point, however, is that there is life long learning and education investment. One of the most significant things I found in making comparisons between North and South was the introduction of the DEIS programme here and the difference that made. Were a DEIS programme introduced tomorrow morning, looking at the socioeconomic factors that are impacting education, I do not agree with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No, up until then, while we are looking at the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think that is it, in terms of the assumptions that have to be made. I am looking forward to the macroeconomic model and I do want to commend the ESRI and IBEC on their initiative. That will tell us a lot and give us a lot to work on. There have been many contributions made to this debate and the better data we have, the more we can accurately take the emotion out of it. We all have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The figure was not €20 billion that time, was it? It was not at €20 billion when the other papers were published.

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Sinn Féin believes that Ireland can better create a fair, efficient and enforced immigration system by exercising its rights to opt out of a majority of the EU pact's proposals. Sinn Féin opposed the migration and asylum pact for very good reasons. First, it undermines human rights. At the justice committee yesterday, several human rights organisations outlined a number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We will split up the Donegal representation and go to Mayo now. Obviously, a lot of the issues arising in Donegal are also happening in Mayo. We have a whole list of things that need to happen in Mayo for people to get on and I really welcome the opportunity to talk to our guests here today. I want to start with Engineers Ireland and its opening statement. In one paragraph, Mr. O'Dowd...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We realised that very quickly when we started to look at it. We had thought everything would be fine because the homes had been insured, and then we realised the actual materials of the homes on which they were built had not been insured and that the indemnity insurance that had been provided for people who had signed off on the homes was not anywhere to be see either. We have been here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are the banks giving guidelines or direction to the people they are training in terms of vulnerable customers or people who need to be looked at in a different way here? Will Ms Byrne tell me about that? What can people expect when they go in? We will take the example of the 55-year old woman who is on her own and trying to access €50,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: For fairness, if the new standards say that the foundations should be included, then it would be absolutely fair to have retrospective funding in respect of anything that is paid out at this stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Sorry. On section 6, obviously it provides for the investment policy of the future investment fund but at present the only specification under the investment strategy is that moneys may be invested inside and outside of the State. The State is suffering from a chronic housing shortage and infrastructure deficits. Our concern relates to the constraining effect that legislated contributions...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to attend the committee today to discuss this issue. I am not a permanent member of the committee, but I obviously wanted to be here. I am glad to have heard Mr. Thomas Carney and Mr. Alan Ivers give their submissions. As they know, I am very familiar with the scheme and the challenges that have been posed over the last number of years. You do not...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. At this stage, therefore, we do not know how much the connection fee will be or whether it is consistent with connection fees for other group water schemes in Mayo or the west. We would like to try to clear up how much the connection fee will be, what that connection fee will be made up of and for how long people have to pay for it. It was my understanding that the connection fee has...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is my understanding that the studies would be done prior to the application being made to Irish Water. Is that so? Can we take it that all the necessary studies have been done at this stage? Planning permission has been granted. We are now at a stage where Irish Water has accepted an amount that needs to be submitted for the cost of the overall scheme so that adequate funding is in...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Hopefully we will get clarification today on where we are at in regard to the scheme and what needs to be done. I hope we will also get a defined timeline so people will know exactly when they can expect to have water. I agree that it is an intolerable situation that Kiltimagh, Cleragh or any other area is without water at this stage. The interface between the group water schemes, Irish...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I agree. I am part of group water scheme myself. I am in the Drum-Binghamstown group water scheme. I want to take this opportunity to commend all of the volunteers in the group water schemes in Mayo and throughout the country. I will speak again to Irish Water, as I have spoken to it before, about the write-off of the debts on some of these schemes. We cannot expect volunteers to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will finish by asking the witnesses to work together to ensure that the situation in Clare does not continue and that they have water as soon as possible. The onus is on everybody to work together to make that happen, including social protection if that is necessary. I acknowledge the witnesses all agree that this situation cannot continue there. We need to learn from this in terms of...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this opportunity to discuss some of the issues impacting on farming. I thank the Minister for his statement. In particular, I welcome his remarks around the well-being of farmers. There is not much we can do about the weather in the short term, but there are many actions we can take to serve the financial stability and viability of farms and to alleviate the financial stress that...