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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Impact of Climate on Public Finances: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is that current or constant prices?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. My first question relates to North-South co-operation. She might be aware that we at the Good Friday Agreement committee are undertaking work on the impact of the constitutional change that would bring about a united Ireland, and we are looking at it sector by sector. We have come up repeatedly against the issue of directly comparable figures between the CSO...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am surprised that happened more than ten years ago because, from having done research myself, I know it is almost impossible to compare like for like between the two censuses. Ongoing work needs to be done and it needs to be prioritised by the Government such that we all pull together in trying to enable the CSO to work with NISRA in that way. There is an added complication in that the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I value that and absolutely accept what the Minister of State is saying, but the results are not coming through to allow us to study, compare and have the data that is necessary to do that, as I am sure any student of economics would agree. I do not know whether there is a way this committee or any other committee of these Houses could facilitate that to bring it forward.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The ESRI will be very useful in that space because it has done very good work with the shared island unit, and that is one of the challenges it has come across all the time. IBEC and the ESRI are developing a macroeconomic model that will tell us a lot and bring this forward, but a conversation specifically with the ESRI on what needs to be done would be useful. The Minister of State...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Adele Bergin, who is excellent, will support that. There are a lot of excellent people in the ESRI but Adele and Seamus McGuinness are particularly good.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. I just think it needs to be deeper and wider, and if we recognise there are gaps, we can seek to fill them in a way that will be useful to us all. Is any training given to public representatives regarding the CSO website? It can sometimes be difficult to navigate, even if it is okay for people who use it day to day.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: They might be offered to us again. Speaking for myself and, I know, for others in representatives’ offices, it is really good to have that information, but being able to draw it out in the way we need to inform the policy proposals we put forward is valuable. I have a couple of questions on behalf of Senator Higgins, who apologises for her absence. She asked about the gathering of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. It will be useful for everyone if she gives that to the committee. Senator Higgins asked also about the Women and Men in Ireland survey. It used to be conducted yearly but is now done only every three or five years, I understand.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think consideration should again be given to doing it yearly given the importance of gender budgeting, as the Minister of State will know.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. The monthly updates of figures for those in emergency accommodation are published by the Department of housing. The most recent figures indicated 13,531 people were in emergency accommodation, reflecting an increase of 230 on the previous month. Our estimations, however, suggest that more than 20,000 people are homeless, when people in accommodation not...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. It is important for the figures. There seems to be one set of figures contradicting the other and it is important to capture them. Obviously, what comes out is only as good as what goes in in the first place. The Department of Health and the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform publicly disagree on how Ireland compares internationally in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That would be useful for the committee. The Minister of State probably would not know now, but perhaps will include it in her response to the committee, whether it is still the case that Ireland includes payments to family carers in the healthcare expenditure we report to the OECD. Is that the norm among the OECD countries? Ireland includes the home care services, the group homes in the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any consideration has been given to bringing the Luas under the direct management of Iarnród Éireann rather than tendering for a new private operator ahead of the expiration of the current contract in November 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9643/24]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that. Relating to that, it is my understanding that private healthcare is included in the figures for Ireland where it is not included in the other EU countries' figures. With the CSO being in such a pivotal position within the EU, it would be in the position to look at that properly. Then, once and for all, we would have a right figure for our expenditure on healthcare that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Leas-Cathaoirleach for letting me contribute even though I am not a permanent member of this committee. I have been listening online to the contributions and statements this morning. Last week, I raised the issue of warmer homes. I note the witnesses have a meeting with the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and I wish them well with it. The Minister needs to come up with better...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. Transport is a huge issue for cancer patients in rural areas. The services have been centralised and there are some very good results, which I acknowledge. However, when people have a 60-mile round trip to get to Galway from, say, Belmullet, the affordability and availability of transport are a real barrier, one which is creating an awful lot of stress for people who could do without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How much are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is that all over the State?