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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the programme for Government commitment to develop strategic development zones; and how this will relate to additional supports for the strategic development zone at Knock Airport. [6595/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the commitment in the programme for Government to develop strategic development zones, SDZs. What will this look like for Ireland West Airport Knock? What timescales will be on that? There is huge untapped potential in our region, which has 95,000 sq. m of commercial enterprise space that can be used for economic development. I welcome the appointment of a manager specifically...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Comhghairdeas to the Minister of State on his new role. We share an interest in Knock Airport and its development. We have talked about it for decades since Monsignor Horan was brave enough, against all the odds, to build the airport. It is obvious that it has not fulfilled its potential. In 2022, the EU downgraded the north and west as a lagging region with a GDP of only 71% of the EU...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is important that people's expectations are not raised. Before elections, there are nonsensical announcements and all that. It is a ten-year period before this will be done with utilities and all of that which needs to be done to develop this zone. Things can be done in the meantime but people's expectations need to be managed. There is a critical opportunity here. In 2021, Sinn...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and I agree with a lot of what he said. Within these strategies, it is always in the implementation and how quickly the implementation can be done. There are opportunities there for self-employment as well. When people find themselves in a situation where they lose their jobs, we should be coming in there to support them. What I am finding in some areas is that when...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has been made aware of potential job losses in the software sector; if he has asked the IDA to intervene; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6594/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We now know that 142 staff are to be laid off by the Irish branch of the global HR and payroll processing company, Workday. When was the Department notified of these job losses? What contact has the Department had with the company and the workers? What is being done for those workers? Has IDA Ireland been involved and how can these workers be helped to find alternative employment and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Last month we learned that Meta is to cut 5% of its staff globally and last year Intel and TikTok notified staff of impending job losses. As the Minister rightly said, there is a significant contraction and it is very important we have a plan in place as this is likely to happen again in the future. Last night we talked with the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, about AI and the implications...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Weather Events (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will put financial support in place for businesses affected by Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6593/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Weather Events (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is almost four weeks since Storm Éowyn battered the country. I wrote to the Minister early in February to ask that a scheme be put in place urgently to assist businesses affected by the storm. Last week Sinn Féin used its Private Members' business time to call for Government support to businesses. Why has no scheme been put in place to date? Businesses need to know today what...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Weather Events (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister might clarify if he got agreement from the insurance companies that the amount they pay will not be impacted. Businesses have two concerns about insurance. The first relates to the excess. If the excess is a couple of thousand euro and their loss is less than that, obviously they will not be able to claim. They are also afraid that their premiums will go up, meaning that over...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Weather Events (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to get clarity on this. Will a scheme be put in place for businesses? I welcome what the Minister has said about horticulture. As he knows, the land in Mayo and the west in general does not lend itself to that. Will we have a scheme similar to the one we had for Storm Babet? It is important that is done sooner rather than later because people and businesses want certainty. There...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop an all-island innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6599/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 44. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will expand on the Programme for Government commitment to support SMEs and reduce the cost of business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6597/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a mechanism, such as the individual funding request process used in the North of Ireland, to allow the HSE consider requests from clinical consultants for treatments for individual patients that fall outside the range of services routinely commissioned such as in the case of dual therapy medication for arthritis and ulcerative colitis; if such a...

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It was about the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the board that was recommended.

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Comhghairdeas to the Minister of State. I wish her the best of luck in her new role. I also congratulate the Minister, Deputy Calleary, for the work he has done in this area. I know the Minister of State will acknowledge that we are still behind the curve. I welcome some of the initiatives she has put forward and made us aware of today. I would also like a copy of her speech. It is very...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the programme for Government's commitment to implementing the Good Friday Agreement in all its parts. Obviously that includes provision for a referendum on Irish unity. I welcome the enhancement of the shared island unit and wish to say how important it is, in light of the geopolitical turbulence we have seen, that the investment in the initiatives and projects must be to secure...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There is cross-party agreement in this House on the necessity to repeal the legacy Act. The Taoiseach will be representing us all when he ensures that happens. The issue I wish to raise with the Taoiseach relates to Frank Stagg. The 50th anniversary of his death will be marked in 2026. The Taoiseach will be aware that Frank Stagg was a hunger striker from Mayo. An academic work on his...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an ⁠update on the work of the shared island unit. [6038/25]