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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I have a few questions. I am sorry that I had to pop out earlier. I have been focusing on school transport since 2009 when the then Minister, Mary Coughlan, carried out a review of the school transport system. The problems commenced thereafter. I have seen families split - in that siblings are not taken on the same bus - and the splitting of communities. The schools have not moved and...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I, too, congratulate the Tidy Towns organisation and committees on the huge contribution they make to local communities. I congratulate all those involved in Westport and all of the other towns in County Mayo which won prizes in their categories. We recognise the very hard work that they do. I wish to mention a four year old girl with a severe neurodisability who is non-verbal and cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: World Development Report 2019: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Dr. Djankov for outlining this report. I find this exchange very interesting from the perspective that it demonstrates how ill-prepared we are for the future and for the jobs of the future. To start with education, are we changing curricula fast enough to meet the new jobs of the future and, if we are not, why are we not? Are there some countries which are changing theirs fast...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: World Development Report 2019: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I completely agree with Mr. Djankov. I could never understand the focus in our education system on cramming in as much information as possible, only to vomit it back up in examinations. That has never made sense to me and it definitely makes no sense in the context of this report. We need to be facilitating a love of learning in our young people and an ability to engage in complex problem...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: World Development Report 2019: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The financial systems in the world, including the World Bank and similar organisations must take better heed of the findings of this report. If we take the example of the promissory notes here, we must basically burn €14.5 billion, but another approach is needed. That money could be invested in our children, in human capital and in social inclusion which would yield a far greater...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: World Development Report 2019: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We need to see a paradigm shift in our thinking. Many regions in this country do not have access to very basic telecommunications infrastructure like broadband. How important is investment in that area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: World Development Report 2019: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Dr. Djankov. I will explore that information further.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I congratulate Ms Liadh Ní Riada, MEP, who is the presidential candidate nominated by Sinn Féin. I thank her for agreeing to represent my party in the election. She is a wonderful, formidable woman who has overcome an awful lot in her life. The one thing that appeals to me about her is not only that she is formidable, courageous and all of those things that I admire in any human...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy John Halligan, for coming to the House. He may remember he was here before at my request in relation to school transport.At the time, the Minister of State promised that no child would be left without a seat on a school bus. I am afraid that is not the picture we see today. In the limited time I have, I want to ask the Minister of State why we cannot...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will be very brief. The school transport system was put in place for children. Putting them into categories of concessionary and non-concessionary is not acceptable. We are not living in North Korea. We need some flexibility around the school transport system. It is not good enough to say the system will not provide another seat or a bigger bus. This is disgraceful and it is a shame...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I know it inside out and upside down.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: When?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Minister of State is saying that children of working parents do not count and that is not fair.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is the logic of what the Minister of State is saying.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Cuirim fáilte ar ais roimh na Seanadóirí go léir. Up to 3,850 children nationally are waiting for initial assessments of need. Children with signs of autism make up a large proportion of this figure. I speak to the parents of such children every day. They are isolated and desperate as they try to find out why their children have unexplained symptoms. Under the...

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. At the outset, I commend the postmasters and postmistresses for the wonderful job they have done in providing the social and economic hubs in these communities. Some of the language that has been used has been grossly unfair. They have the responsibility of the whole parish or the whole area and people are looking to them in a way that they...

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I heard the Minister on Midwest Radio. He referred to Aldi and Lidl and it is almost like-----

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Let me tell the Minister my interpretation of it.

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is almost like it is people's choice that they do not want a post office but that is not my experience in rural Ireland. That is why I believe the Government is not listening to those communities that are prepared to come up with their own solution to keep their post offices open. There are many areas where people have offered to run the post office, or have presented viable options for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I am not sure if they completely understand the extent of this problem and how it has put thousands of jobs at risk. One contractor directly employs 45 people and has 100 subcontractors. All of those jobs are lost to this economy never mind the personal circumstances that have been outlined previously. The witnesses stated that they empathise...