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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Deputy Shanahan for this Bill. We certainly support it. We think it will go some way, albeit being post-analysis, towards addressing what we have spoken about here in terms of transparency, value for money and what really needs to be done. It shines a light on the extent of the challenges we have and the picture of how money is spent. There are a lot of other things that need to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Anybody may answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What does Dr. Griffin think would be the advantage of having that, announcing expenditure to the Oireachtas before it is announced in the media? That happens all the time as regards-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know. I come from Mayo so I can really identify with that. Dr. Griffin is exactly right in what he said. I would like us to have a conversation about this because it is really important and it is an opportunity to have in the room the people who have done the analysis on this. Sometimes we need to take the sentiment out of this and look at the hard facts. When we look at the hard facts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why is it happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will not say not the right party.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It needs positive discrimination. When you find yourself in the lowest 7% of the EU regions-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Naturally. There are so many opportunities in the west. We have a habit of thinking up good phrases. The Atlantic economic corridor is a great phrase but it means nothing unless it is underpinned with investment, for example, in Knock Airport, the western rail corridor, the N17, and renewable energy in the potential of offshore and onshore. This is the problem. In the west and in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I argued it with Mr. Power in class years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: He said in a very low voice, unless there was an external shock. I will always remember that. The external shock came. That is why what we are discussing today is so important, as well as the ESRI report from last week. The way to protect ourselves against the next recession, which there will be at some stage, is to have this infrastructure in place. I am fearful of what will happen if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Deputy Shanahan envisage any role for the national investment office in the Department of public expenditure, particularly in major capital projects? The NIO is supposed to be the centralised hub of expertise in delivering capital projects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Many of these capital projects go wrong from the beginning and are almost designed to go wrong in not having clear objectives and outcomes, and measurement is almost impossible. Are we saying through this Bill that there would be a requirement to provide information on project objectives, on the real outcomes and on the outputs from the project measured against those objectives? Would the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When the OECD makes an assessment that we are one of the worst countries in the whole of the area in budgetary oversight and all of that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know, and I completely agree as I know some of the projects Ms Henry is talking about where there is good practice there, but what we want is to have that taken as a given.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: One thing about this committee is the diversity of opinion among its members. I thank Deputy Shanahan for the Bill. It will be the first of many pieces of legislation in this area. We are starting from a very low base. There are many things we need to correct, including bringing expertise back into the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Programmes (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the annual contribution from Ireland to the European Peace facility each year since it was established and the projected cost for the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57053/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Programmes (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has been providing military aid to Ukraine through the European Peace facility; if so, the total amount provided to date in financial terms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57054/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ukraine War (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 155. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the total share of the €500 million provided under the EU Act in Support of Ammunition Production Regulation will be used to provide direct supply of ammunition to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57055/23]