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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Where was the awareness and why was it not put on the packages so the woman or her GP could make the decision? Maybe her GP knew. I do not know. These are the kinds of issues we need to find out. I am glad that the Minister has not ruled out an inquiry. I ask that we take the learning from France and from Britain also, get this cleared up and get full accountability for what happened....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I need to ask the HSE representatives about Translarna. I am completely up to date on that but I want to know when the decision is to be made. This drug is used for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: When will the decision be made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Please, because as Mr. Connaghan knows we still have the five boys - and it is only the five boys - who are in a very difficult situation. I really hope that progress has been made with the second application. I welcome the fact that the legal case was taken off the table to facilitate this happening. I hope it will be a positive result. I must also ask about Spinraza. Does the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is that review group updated on the condition of the children? Do they take into account in their decision-making process the children who are very seriously ill and have been hospitalised or put into intensive care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is important that there is proper negotiation on the price at an early stage so that we get the current price and not multiples of that price. We would then be trying to make decisions on that cost, which would be crazy. I wish to question the Minister on the audiology failures in counties Mayo and Roscommon. I know a number of actions have been taken on that, but again we do not know...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I apologise for being not present all day, but Senator Frances Black, myself and others attended the Ballymurphy massacre inquests. The families have waited 47 years for this day. The small companies that I am come in contact with all the times are being excluded from tendering for business which would make their businesses more viable and allow the growth and development they need. I...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is important we have the aggregate data on whether it is for the EU or for legislation to enable us to make the necessary changes in terms of restricts on any of the organisations where funding is necessary. It is not about refusing funding but I want to focus on the barriers. I am aware that there are barriers that do not allow organisations to fund. There is inadequate flexibility to...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is not that we do not have innovation and innovative thinking in rural areas but opportunities are lost. When the people with the shiny shoes arrive, we are ever-embracing but when indigenous people come forward with innovative ideas, they come across barrier after barrier. It is our collective responsibility to understand and address the barriers, and it is crucial that we do so.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I commend those from the civic nationalist group who organised an open letter to the Taoiseach. The previous letter was signed by 200 people but this one was signed by 1,000. The increase in the number of signatories is not only an indication of the welcome support of a broad range of nationalists in the North but also a sign of the growing concern that their rights are threatened by...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I commend my colleague, Senator Swanick, for again raising the issue of the drug, Spinraza, as a Commencement matter this morning. However, the answer he was given by the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, was wholly unsatisfactory. Some of the children in need of the drug are in intensive care units but we are given the nonsense of being told the drug is under consideration. It is cruel...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am, but I wish to reiterate it because we are united across parties in trying to address the needs of these vulnerable families and the children who desperately need that drug. Last Friday, roads and communities in County Mayo were once again cut off by flooding. The flooding is largely due to the lack of investment in local and regional roads. Some €40 million was announced in...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: No, the Minister, Deputy Ring, is in County Mayo, probably at a funeral. I ask the Leader to request that the Minister of State specifically responsible for flooding, Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran, visit County Mayo to see the problems caused by flooding, particularly on the Belmullet peninsula and in the surrounding area, to listen to the concerns of the community and put the funding in place to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Mr. Masding for his opening statement. We met representatives of the ECB recently and a large part of our discussion was on non-performing loans. We wanted to understand the extent of the pressure from the ECB on Permanent TSB in terms of the sell-off. We spoke about the impact Project Glas was having. They made it abundantly clear that they were not in any way instructing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Why is Permanent TSB not using everything rather than selling on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Will Mr. Masding explain how that is dangerous for Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Will Mr. Masding explain a bit further how that is dangerous for Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does Mr. Masding not think that the banks played a big part in that, banks like Permanent TSB, in reckless lending in the first instance and then when people were losing their jobs and being put into those financial situations because of the nationalising of the private debt of the banks? We have to look at the causes and ask why the level of non-performing loans is as high as it is. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I do not think that Mr. Masding has looked at all the other alternatives so I do not share his opinion on that especially on enabling people to have security within their own homes, and to give people a chance. I want to put a couple of further points to Mr. Masding and we have limited time. Did Mr. Masding speak to Start Mortgages about its non-attendance at this committee meeting today?...