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Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his reasoning for substantially reducing the remuneration for the Chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4594/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Programme (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3495/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank InterTradeIreland for being here today. It is very timely that the witnesses are here because of what is happening in the North and the restoration of the Executive. I thank them for all the work they have done in spite of what they have been up against in terms of the North-South ministerial bodies and the lack of meetings and everything else. They have still managed to do an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There would be an absolute intolerance to any impediment to the development of business. When we consider that businesses have had to come through a global pandemic and everything else on top of it, I cannot see that any business, North or South, would accept impediments being put in its way. My next question is about the possibility of collaboration between the local enterprise offices,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is where we come to human capital. One of the biggest challenges for business is being able to get the labour that is necessary. A significant development here is the Higher Education Authority, HEA, legislation, under which each of the higher education institutions, HEIs, is tasked explicitly with increasing the number of places in the South for students from the North. The same is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Very good research is done in the Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy, CASE, at Queen's University. We are familiar with that and have had presentations to the committee around it and what can be done on individual farms and clusters. There is a great interest throughout the island in what is being done in that regard. It is about that exchange of learning and not reinventing the wheel...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on National Development Plan: Economic and Social Research Institute (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have been watching the screen and I do not think so either.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on National Development Plan: Economic and Social Research Institute (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for the very useful report and welcome them to this meeting. When was the report sent to the Department?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on National Development Plan: Economic and Social Research Institute (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When was the second draft sent?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on National Development Plan: Economic and Social Research Institute (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It was prior to the budget.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on National Development Plan: Economic and Social Research Institute (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is what I am trying to establish. Given some of what is in it, I am surprised it was not taken into consideration in the budget. My biggest concern in relation to capital projects is that the funding is insufficient. In terms of the scope, when Dr. Barrett pitched the problem, was the issue of inflation considered? Was the issue of inflation, and the fact there was not sufficient...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on National Development Plan: Economic and Social Research Institute (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are we walking blindly into, say, a situation where there would be a gap of €19 billion? Some provision was made, but nothing near the €2.5 billion-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on National Development Plan: Economic and Social Research Institute (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Dr. McQuinn might also address another matter for me. Where do we stand when it comes to meeting the current targets for reducing both inflation and the price of houses?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on National Development Plan: Economic and Social Research Institute (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: So Dr. McQuinn does not know the scale. On balanced regional development, Dr. Barrett stated: "While the spread of projects appears to reflect a reasonable degree of alignment between investment and population targets, the data available are too limited". That is a way of saying that we do not have enough people in the areas represented by Deputy Canney and me. Is it time to look at the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I second that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth. The Minister lists under the main policy achievements the update of the public spending code, which has now been replaced with the infrastructure guidelines that were published before Christmas. I have some concerns about the changes to the oversight of the major capital projects but today I would like to focus on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for the clarification. What would it mean in practical terms for the delivery of housing? I am aware of 30 housing projects in Mayo that are going through the four-stage process. That might sound promising on the face of it, but we know that it usually takes years for projects to get on site and under construction. Will the changes enable Mayo County Council to conduct...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Some of it would be. Where a contractor who was going to take up a job has pulled out because of construction inflation and affordability issues, is a list kept whereby the next preferred contractor is offered the contract or must we go right back to the start again?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is a serious problem. Our most recent project is in Newport. A development was planned but the main contractor has pulled out. We have to go right back to the start again. I can see such a situation occurring in other instances as well because the profit margins are not sufficient for the developer to proceed. Are we tied to a project having to go back to the very beginning of the...