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Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The drop-off in people paying the television licence fee did not just happen by accident. It is a form of protest. Regardless of whether one agrees with them, people are having their say. It is a protest against the insider culture and unaccountability of the top brass in RTÉ. Even after the story broke and the public anger was clear, those at the top of RTÉ still did not get...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Programme (13 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3493/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is the concern. We talked about data earlier. We also discussed regional development and what needs to be done there. The data that is available from the EU Regional Competitiveness Index shows that in the context of infrastructure, the west is in the bottom 7%. That speaks for itself. One of the projects I am very concerned about is that relating to Ballinrobe Community School....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to bring forward a revised national development plan departmental ceilings in order to account for the inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5764/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have already discussed the recently published ESRI report and some of the important findings therein. However, the report ignored the elephant in the room, namely, inflation. The national development plan is at risk if the Government does not get serious about the impact of inflation. If the intention of the report was to inform decisions on the NDP ceilings, why did the Minister not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We know of some projects that have been delayed, but my main concern is that we do not know the extent of those. Last September, Ministers warned that there would be a €14 billion deficit. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council then stated that it would be €19 billion and that €2.7 billion extra would be needed each year to meet the existing capital plans. I know that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the Crossmolina flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5763/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As the Department of expenditure is the planning authority for flood relief schemes, the OPW issued that Department with a report that addressed the supplementary information it required. The OPW is still awaiting a response from the Department. Will the Minister please tell the people of Crossmolina when its scheme will start? He will know this has been going on since 2015.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is the crux of the problem. When is the Minister expecting information from the consultants to which the Department has given supplementary information for them to assess whether it is sufficient and significant? Will he assure me at this stage that we will not need to go to a third public consultation process once the Department responds to the information given last November? That...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I think people would ask that he does absolutely everything in his power to ensure that the sign-off time for the phase the project is currently at be cut as short as possible. The Minister can get it through to the consultants that this is an absolute priority scheme. He is right about Deputies Calleary and Dillon. There has been cross-party support and concern in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I really think it is time the Government looked at this collectively rather than waiting for individual Ministers. The Minister gave the usual reason of commercial operations and private auditors, but there seems to be an inconsistent approach to when public oversight is used. Just across the road, more than 50% of Trinity College's revenue is not from the State, yet every year the books...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I referenced those organisations to highlight the inconsistency of approach. The outrageous scandal in RTÉ brought this to the public's attention. How do we know there are not any other RTÉs? A small commercial operation is used to hide from public accountability. The current system, whereby oversight is conducted by the board of RTÉ by commissioning the audit of accounts,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Anglo Irish Bank and Carillion.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has engaged with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the potential of extending its remit to cover commercial public bodies in a dual audit capacity to ensure greater oversight and accountability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5766/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the Minister engaged with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the potential of the State auditor to cover semi-State bodies that receive public money but engage in commercial activity? I refer to a dual audit capacity. The public would be surprised that the Government does not require this already. Will the Minister consider changing the State auditor's remit to ensure...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how the finding of the recently published ESRI report, The National Development Plan in 2023: Priorities and Capacity, will shape the review of NDP ceilings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5760/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minister outline the procedure involved in ensuring that the findings of the recently published Economic and Social Research Council, ESRI, report, The National Development Plan in 2023: Priorities and Capacity, will be incorporated and ultimately change the current NDP ceilings so we know we are investing enough in housing and making sure that the construction activity is directed...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is an answer but it does not answer my questions. The ESRI report was with the Minister's Department before the budget last year and an early draft was with the Department as early as June last year. This report makes it clear that there is need to increase housing targets. Sinn Féin has spent the last four years warning that housing targets were too low. Finally the expertise...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When it comes to the State building social and affordable homes it is very clear now that the targets for 2023 are not going to be met in counties like Mayo. Indeed not a single house was delivered in Mayo in the first nine months of 2023. Another crucial finding of the ESRI report is about the workforce and the need and potential use of the taxation system to redirect construction work....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Programme (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 40. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the legislative programme. [3494/24]