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Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: A great deal of social damage is caused by betting and that necessitates a higher tax contribution from the sector. The current duty does not even cover the horse and greyhound fund, however, and it has not done so for a long time. I have an issue, however, with the way in which the tax is being levied. It is not a million years since betting duty of 10% was applied but it is crucial to...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 16:In page 138, to delete line 19. I will withdraw the recommendation and reserve the right to resubmit on Report Stage.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 18.“Report on income tax relief64.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on an income tax relief equivalent in value to one month’s rent of an individual available to all renters not already in receipt of any State subsidy examining the social and economic impact of...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Cathaoirleach. While I take on board what the Minister of State said around the refundable tax credit, this is a really important recommendation and I will be pressing it.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 19:In page 146, after line 36, to insert the following:“Report on re-introduction of trade union tax relief 64. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the reintroduction of trade union tax relief.”. This amendment intends to do what it says on the tin, which is...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes.

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I welcome the Bill and Sinn Féin will facilitate its passage through all Stages in the House. It goes some way towards addressing the concerns of all affected homeowners regarding who is regulated. Since the Bill was introduced back in March of this year, many more mortgages have been sold to vultures. This issue goes back four years when the first raft of Irish Bank Resolution...

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Bill does not protect homeowners and this is what we need to discuss. Even if passed, there is still much to do. An impression is being given that because of this legislation, which is important in that it brings us a step forward, somehow these homeowners will be protected. They will not be protected and this message needs to go out loud and clear. It does not give them any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Brexit on the Agrifood Sector (4 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the witnesses very much for their very useful presentations on technical matters and tariffs in the context of what the cost of Brexit is likely to be. The witnesses commended Bord Bia, Enterprise Ireland, the Revenue Commissioners, the Government and InterTradeIreland for being prepared and for the work they have done. Are they prepared for a "no deal" Brexit? That is my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Brexit on the Agrifood Sector (4 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We could be facing a perfect storm for the food and drink industry and everyone employed in it if we are to have the double whammy of Brexit and increased tariffs from the USA. The consequences would be very serious. Is it correct that no products in the North of Ireland are allowed to use "product of Ireland" on their labelling?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Brexit on the Agrifood Sector (4 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: What about spirits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Brexit on the Agrifood Sector (4 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is very obvious that partition does not serve the food and drinks industry in any positive way. It should start its own lobby.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Brexit on the Agrifood Sector (4 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Mr. Lavelle referred to a joint committee on cross-Border geographical indications. How would that work?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: As yesterday was International Day of Persons with Disabilities, I will focus on two separate issues relating to people with disabilities. On the provision of personal assistants, there was an excellent presentation in the AV room earlier hosted by Deputy Ó Caoláin, whom I commend on all of his work, as Chair of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality, for people with...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I welcome Mrs. Ardagh to the Visitors Gallery. I hope she will have a nice day. On behalf of the Sinn Féin team in the Seanad, I congratulate Senator Ruane on her wonderful achievement. Most of all, I wish to discuss broadband provision. The Cathaoirleach referred to meeting a French delegation. I hope he congratulated the delegates on the fact that a French billionaire owned our...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: -----but he never mentions the thousands of jobs that have been denied to people living in rural Ireland or the thousands who have been forced to emigrate because this infrastructure has not been provided. Shame on all of your houses. We want to know when we will have broadband in rural Ireland. We deserve to have it as much as anyone else. We are sick and tired of the semantics,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank all of the witnesses for their presentations. I am particularly interested in Dr. Lambert and his expertise. I thank him very much for all of the information he has given. My most recent contact with Lyme disease was when I saw a woman packing bags in SuperValu a couple of weeks ago in Castlebar. She explained she was doing it to raise money for her daughter who was chronically...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is that centre closed now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: My information is that there is no doctor there now, although I stand to be corrected on that. If a person watching proceedings today is experiencing symptoms that point to Lyme disease, what should he or she do? Say this person is living in the west of Ireland without the means to go anywhere privately. What does that person do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Can the GP do a clinical diagnosis to tell people if they have Lyme disease?