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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: How many individuals were there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I know what Mr. Byrne is saying. We need to look to the future, to the present and to our attitude to white collar crime. I know where Mr. Byrne is going with this point but I do not share his confidence that we are where we need to be at this time. I have further questions around the multi-party actions. In the report I do not see any proposals around class actions or multi-party...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Mr. Byrne would think it is important to have that. Many people might think of a corporate crime agency as just another quango. We have the Central Bank, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, and the heads of Bill from Government to establish a corporate enforcement authority. Some would see this as rebranding of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I refer to the response of the Taoiseach in the Dáil yesterday regarding Spinraza. Parents and sufferers alike received bad news after months and months of raising this issue and waiting for a response. The HSE, yet again, has not been held accountable for how it negotiates an acceptable price with Biogen, the maker of Spinraza. Practically every other European country has managed to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: We know where he is. That is not the issue. It is the governance that is at issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the delegates for their presentations. There is a lot in them and I commend all of them on the good work being done. We talk about some of it as if it was innovation. I was working remotely in London almost 20 years ago without any help in terms of enterprise or anything else. It was just the way it worked. I travelled into the city one day a week and worked from home in Rayleigh...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is a substantial budget to provide employment. What are the plans to maximise potential in the provision of fibre optic cables in the west?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Where are the various agencies in generating employment and providing for enterprise development in the provision of fibre optic cables in the west? Are the delegates familiar with the issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will. I just find this way to be more effective. It is important that the delegates furnish the committee with information on the progress made in that regard. When we talk about things, we are talking about them in the round. We have talked about the interaction and collaboration between the different agencies involved and the different resources that are available. To me, fibre optic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Indeed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Therein lies the problem. We can no longer afford to work in silos. I know that there is a certain degree of collaboration, but this is vital. This is the biggest thing to happen in the west for a long time and will mean that the highest speeds will be available. Another cable is due to be brought through shortly, as well as another from Iceland. Unless we take advantage of them and plan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: That will be more difficult. I want to ask about Knock airport, on which Enterprise Ireland had discussions, and the potential to connect with flights to Brussels, which would be a real help to people from the west. I also want to ask about the Enterprise Ireland's interaction with the LEADER programme. I concur with the audit skills report. However, many of these reports were carried...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I want to address what has just been said by Senators on my left and their party leader about the non-disclosure of information by the PSNI. Does Fianna Fáil think it is okay for the PSNI to withhold vital, significant and sensitive information? That is my question for Micheál Martin. Is Fianna Fáil okay with that?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I wish to ask a number of questions.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am not addressing Senator Noone.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I know the Fianna Fáil Party has a confidence and supply arrangement with the Government. If the Fianna Fáil Party has full confidence in the PSNI does it think it is okay that the PSNI has withheld vital significant information? It is not me who is saying that it is significant information, it is Dr. Michael Maguire, the police ombudsman. There are at least 20 families across...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Have its representatives asked these families what they want?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Have they total disregard for these families? That is the reason that last week we asked for the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, to come to this House to tell Members what the Irish Government was doing about this issue. Is the Government going to turn its back? If Fianna Fáil thinks it is okay to have no accountability, saying that is fine, and the computer was...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: If the Fianna Fáil Senator wants to stand over it, stand full square behind it. We are not standing over it and we will make no apologies for that. Trying to make party politics at the expense of these families is wrong. Perhaps one of the Fianna Fáil Senators would respond to me if he or she has spoken to the families in question because they are the people at the centre of...