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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad Mr. Huddleston mentioned that because that was going to be one of my questions around the ATU and the very good work that is being done in Donegal in the partnerships there. I see really good results coming from that, so it is very good to have this fund that is able to support that work. I ask about the programme's animation and the capacity for reaching out. The ideal thing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I can see that is a real challenge. I used to work in the LEADER programme so I am aware of the value of that. It is okay to refer to the hard-to-reach people but they take time, resources, dedication, patience and all of those things. The temptation if you are under pressure and do not have the resources is to go with the ones who are less labour intensive and that is what you do not want...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has Pobal got a dedicated section? I will contact Pobal after the meeting around this but does it have a dedicated section to make this work for people here and how is it resourced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is probably all my questions for now but I appreciate the witnesses' offer to come back to us as this evolves. I hear what they are saying regarding the North-South Ministerial Council. Is there anything we can do as a committee to support what they are doing to get the resources we need to be able to implement all of this effectively?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have one final question. I really see the one single identity work that needs to be done as the pre-development work, if you like, and it is important to have the flexibility to be able to do that. In a post-conflict situation and when looking with programmes like this to build whole communities where everybody's needs are reached, and in addressing post-traumatic stress disorder and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If a group like that is making an application, would it make it directly to PEACEPLUS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is really good. Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 170. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to the Exchequer of a flat €750, €1,000 and €1,500 increase in full time annual pay for all public sector workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2220/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank both Mr. Hall and Mr. Kennedy for their statements. On mortgage interest relief in terms of the parameter for qualifying of having a mortgage remaining of more than €80,000, I know of many people where the amount of their outstanding mortgage is less than €80,000 and they happen to be people who are on very low incomes. They are people who are parenting on their own...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, I agree with Mr. Hall.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, I agree. We have proposed that for a long time but what came out the other side from the Government has been very disappointing. My time is limited so I do not want to dwell on the matter. I cannot make sense of the interest relief for landlords because rents are higher than ever. Rent pressure zones have been mentioned. Let us consider County Mayo and Westport, which is a rent...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why give a subsidy to somebody, say in Castlebar today, who can tell a tenant that he or she must pay €400 extra and the total rent now to be paid is €1,500 a month?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Surely that is the problem. From the beginning incentives or budget funds have been given to the real estate investment trusts but that has created an inequity and the new initiative seeks to fill the gap. Surely the solution is to take the relief away from those who commodify houses and make millions and billions of euro.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No, I would not do that but one puts them in the same box by saying there is an unfairness.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: They did.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Mr. Kennedy think that it was right to give them massive tax reliefs or make things tax free?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do we know how many are selling because prices are at the top of the market? Looking into the future, I cannot see that house prices will continue to escalate. Surely, they are not going to continue to escalate all the time. They must be reaching some limit. Would that not be the optimum time for anybody to sell? In terms of the timing of when people bought these properties as investment...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is a business decision. When a person commodifies homes, he or she is making very hard business decisions. They are decisions people can make. I will finish on this. We are spending €459 million on a tax relief at the height of the market when revenues have never been so large and then we have targets in County Mayo like €150 million and €170 million. That...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If you like, it is a natural cycle rather than-----