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Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are 220 homeless children in counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. There was one person homeless in 2014. That just demonstrates how the situation has gotten worse under the Minister's watch. Every month the number of homeless people increases on the Minister's watch. Behind these figures are real families and people who desperately need somewhere to live. They are scared that they...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (12 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As the Minister said, the purpose of the Appropriation Bill 2023 is to give statutory authority to the amounts voted on by the Dáil during the year from the original Estimates, further Revised Estimates and Supplementary Estimates. The Bill used to be just waved through the Dáil without any debate. It is important that this is no longer the case. This House needs greater scrutiny...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome Harry, Lorcan and Karen Keely to the Gallery. I raise the seriousness of the delay in ACRES. Delay impacts not only the families of the farmers but also suppliers, local businesses and contractors who desperately need that money. The issue is also going to impact taxation. It means that for two payments in one year, recipients are going to be taxed more than they would otherwise...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (12 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 250. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason registered blind persons are omitted from availing of the primary care certificate; his plans to include blind persons in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54879/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: International Bodies (12 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 251. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide, in tabular form, Ireland’s contribution to the IMF each year in nominal terms and as a percentage of GNP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54882/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Data (12 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of the public sector pay bill which is recouped directly through income tax and USC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54591/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Data (12 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a one percent pay increase was introduced across the public sector, what would be the estimated cost; what percentage of that amount would be recouped directly through income tax and USC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54592/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (12 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what the pathway is for a person (details supplied) to have her path to citizenship overseen in a timely manner so that she is able to access the full range of state services available to seniors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55109/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on engagements he has had with the engineering sector with respect to certification of specific options under the defective concrete block scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54174/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the Implementation Steering Group with respect to the defective concrete block scheme; if he will establish an oversight group including key stakeholders, including affected homeowners, the banking industry, insurance industry, engineering sector and others in order to resolve key outstanding issues; and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Taoiseach continues to quote figures and defend Fine Gael's record on housing, but Fine Gael's record on housing in Mayo is clear. We went from one person homeless in 2014 to 87 people homeless today and that does not nearly tell the picture of all those who do not have a home or who are in completely unsuitable accommodation. That is the record in Mayo. People are waiting months in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Pension parity for retired members of An Garda Síochána exists and sees pension increases being paid in line with increases awarded to serving colleagues. Parity will expire with the current agreement at the end of the year. It has been in place since the sixties. Retired gardaí are not directly represented and rely on the Garda staff associations and the Alliance of Retired...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53902/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, I got that. Has just one company been prosecuted to date, given the school bus case is in train?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That case was not related, as Ms Butler said, to procurement contracts, so no one has been prosecuted in this State for public procurement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How many times has the OGP, or any of the four other central purchasing bodies, whether education, defence, health or local government, contacted the CCPC to report suspected bid-rigging?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Based on what we see internationally and here, is it likely to be as a result of honest companies operating here? Is it due to a lack of powers or resources for the CCPC or the fact it is not a priority for the Government? I am trying to get a picture of the landscape.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, and Mr. McHugh's opening statement was very informative in terms of what we need to discuss here. He mentioned the case unfolding in Austria that could involve €61 billion in public money, where construction companies could face hundreds of millions of euro in fines as a result. We also saw the case in Spain last year. Are any of the companies involved in the Austrian...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand that. As things are now, even as a preliminary consideration, it is public knowledge which companies have been involved in bid rigging and were fined and prosecuted in other countries. Does this automatically raise an alert in the CCPC or in the Government to give extra scrutiny to those companies that have already been prosecuted in other countries? How does the commission...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We see over and over again where this happens. I could name out lists of companies to Mr. McHugh that have been involved in securing contracts here despite their having been banned in other member states. Is there no collaboration across member states that will lead to standards being imposed in this context? What is the collaboration? Is there any formal collaboration?