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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: That is the risk the people who are going to lose their jobs and the contractors that are going to go out of business are paying for. It is they who are paying for it.

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: It is important to state we have provided solutions today as to how this can be done in a different way. The model that has been in use is flawed and it has had an impact. This shows the usefulness of this committee. To protect subcontractors in the future, can it not be legislated that the State will insist on the main contractor taking out a bond to protect subcontractors and ensure,...

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: Can it be done?

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: Why not?

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: On behalf of this committee, I ask the Department to give it serious consideration.

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: Please do so and revert to the committee.

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 am asking whether we can do it as legislators. Can it be legislated for? I would appreciate it if the answer could be given to the committee through the Chair. I return to the EU directive that provided for this. Given the roles that the NDFA and the Department have, it concerns me that advice was not sought from them on the scrutiny of this legislation and how it could be put in...

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 find it quite alarming because it says to me that there has been negligence here. The EU directive outlines exactly how the contracting authority may be required by a member state to ask the tenderer to indicate in its tender any share of the contract it may intend to subcontract to third parties and any proposed subcontractors. That would give the chain of responsibility and would allow...

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: That is why we have a responsibility to protect it. It is high risk but there are measures that can be put in place to make it less high risk. The directive states, for example, that the contracting authority shall require the main contractor to indicate to the contracting authority the name, contact details and legal representatives of its subcontractors involved in such works or services,...

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: That is a small amount of money to be able to fix this. That money will be regained tenfold and 20-fold if these jobs and businesses are protected. Let us not be short-sighted about it in allowing them to go to the wall. We need to protect the businesses and do everything we possibly can, even within our silo-institutionalised thinking as it is at the moment, to make it cost-neutral. It...

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 proposed to refer the statutory audit market to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, as has been done with the big four accounting firms in Britain. I call for an examination of the competition in that market and the conflicts of interest arising from firms being paid for a service and their auditing role.

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: What is the monetary value of the 1.5%?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products Availability (12 Jul 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Senator Wilson for sharing time. He knows how passionate I am about the subject of Translarna and the boys who are waiting for it. I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. The Minister, Deputy Harris, is acutely aware of this subject and also of what needs to be done. I welcome the fact PTC Therapeutics and the HSE have come to an agreement and that the legal case is...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products Availability (12 Jul 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and Senator Wilson. I also thank the Minister of State for her response. The application by PTC will be submitted by the end of the month. It would be helpful and important to outline the process and timeline. We have to remember these boys. Both Senator Wilson and I know these families so they have become human beings and not just numbers to us. One of...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products Availability (12 Jul 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: -----in the hope that Translarna will be granted to them.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products Availability (12 Jul 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I wish to raise the issue of incidences of audiology misdiagnoses in Mayo and Roscommon and the 49 children who have been affected by it. They had hearing loss and were not diagnosed because it was not picked up in the screening process. There are now 49 families who are left trying to cope with what has happened. I would call it a scandal because it was allowed to happen. The proper...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is what we argued for in Dublin.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: In Dublin.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: One letter does not constitute, in any event we will talk about that again but it is not-----