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

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the better energy warmer homes scheme, is it just in transport that the Irish Cancer Society can help? Can it help to bridge the gap where somebody was going to apply to the scheme?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: The society could not do that. Perhaps the local authorities can because they obviously have a mandate in respect of housing. There is also the matter of the medical card.

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will follow on from that because it is a very serious issue. One of the impacts of what happened in Kerry during that scandal is that CAMHS started to push children and young people out of the system and back to their GPs. That is the absolute fact of what has happened in the west. The Minister of State should know that and if she does not, she needs to investigate it properly. We have...

Broadcasting (Oversight of RTÉ Accounts) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Bringing RTÉ under the Comptroller and Auditor General is long overdue. Today, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, Eoghan Finn in his office and the Sinn Féin members on the Committee of Public Accounts have presented legislation that the Government should have introduced years ago. I have been calling since last July for RTÉ's exemption from the State audit to be removed to allow the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Government has repeatedly denied since the budget that there is a recruitment embargo in the health service but this does not tally with the reality on the ground. I have spoken to multiple people affected by the freeze and one said to me that in Mayo we have nurses, healthcare workers, psychologists and desperately-needed front-line workers who cannot be placed in permanent positions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will be as quick as possible. I thank the witnesses for their statements. What assessment was done on the impact on rural areas of the withdrawal of ATMs? Could the witnesses clarify for me the distance they are talking about within which banks will be obliged to have an ATM?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: But obviously the population is totally irrelevant in rural areas. In terms of the 10 km, is Mr. Gilvarry talking about a cashpoint being outside a building or available within a building? Are we talking about access 24 hours a day or for a limited time if they are within premises?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Who has carried out an impact assessment on rural areas of not having cash machines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The framework will guarantee rural areas have access to ATMs in the same way as the areas with a higher population. There will be no differentiation between people having access. Mr. Gilvarry rightly points to issues such as security and financial independence. In rural areas there is obviously a bigger population of elderly people as well, and the transport issues and everything else that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: To be clear, are the cash points within banks being counted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When Mr. Gilvarry refers to 99%, they are of no use to people over the weekend who want to access their cash.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am interested in getting the figures right. It sounds really good and reassuring to hear the coverage is 99% and that everybody has access to their cash over the weekend and on bank holidays but what are we left with if we take out the ATMs that are available just five days a week, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is the problem. We have the vast majority and then we have whole towns that used to have cash points but no longer do. They may have had several cash points but they might have none now. I refer to the impact that situation has where an attempt is being made to develop areas, such as along the Wild Atlantic Way. There is a need to have access to cash along those routes as well. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Did Mr. Palmer refer to what the bank will decide?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Hayes for his statement. It appears he does not like the general scheme too much or does not want legislation to be put in place. There are so many things Mr. Hayes has pointed out that were they all to be implemented, it would nearly negate the legislation altogether. It is certainly important that we discuss them. The first issue I want to ask about is competitive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When we look at the number of ATM transactions in millions, it was 151.9 million in 2015 and then 156.2 million. It did not go into decline until 2019. The big drop was in 2020.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In terms of the banks leaving the market, Mr. Hayes referred to it not being competitive and to the shrinking of the sector. How much did Bank of Ireland announce in profits earlier today?