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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: A Chathaoirligh, I will finish the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Those condescending answers do not serve the people of the west. It is too bad the Minister is so smug about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Indeed. I am living in the story. Let us consider the Leader funding. We know that in Mayo alone, Leader funding is between €9 million and €12 million less than it was in the previous programme. I will finish it at that. If people in rural Ireland cannot send emails because of lack of broadband or cannot make telephone calls, then they do not have the services they need....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will not.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is a new day and we have another scandal. I refer to the scandal of illegal adoptions. I do not think it comes as a surprise to anyone because many of us have spoken to women who have lived in such homes and those who had their signatures forged and their babies taken away from them to be sold or traded. This is what happened in this country. Now, we have 126 cases that have been...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is absolutely disgusting. My thoughts and prayers are with the people who have been involved, those who have been illegally adopted and those who have had their identities stolen from them. Can people imagine anything worse than having one's identity stolen? I wish to speak about the situation in respect of home help and the fact that 6,450 people have been assessed and approved but...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am happy to support Senator O'Sullivan's amendment but I am disappointed that Sinn Féin's two amendments have been ruled out of order. They related to radon control. One involved a survey of the home for radon, and the second another scheme for remediation to protect against radon gas in homes. Radon is the greatest cause of lung cancer after smoking and it causes five cases of...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We are each representing our parties. We speak for our parties.

Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I welcome the Minister to the House again for this long-overdue debate on the establishment of another tier in the Irish banking system. There has never been more reason to have a regionally-based, common-good oriented and publicly-mandated banking system. We need a banking system we can trust. If there is one thing we have learned from the crash and the financial abuses, it is that we...

Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Absolutely. I agree with the Senator.

Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will say it for the Senator. It is true. When one goes into the bank, one is told one must come back between certain times to get one's own money.

Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is crazy, especially for people in rural areas. This is why we are talking about a rural banking system, although I acknowledge the proposal is for SMEs. That people from a rural area who have no public transport and who have to travel miles to the bank are told to come back the next day is absolutely bizarre. It is happening because it is being facilitated. I lost count of the number...

Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: This motion is a typical cynical motion from Fianna Fáil but to be fair, it is only taking up Fine Gael's lead on it. Those parties which supported the local property tax are now running afraid of it. Of course it is due to increase. The whole idea when it was introduced was that as property prices went up so too would the tax. That was too much to accept before the election so the...

Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: -----and replace it with Exchequer funding. As Senator Norris and Sinn Féin have said, giving charitable status to vulture funds, who end up owning many properties and land when loans go into distress, and allowing them to pay a minuscule amount of tax does not make sense.

Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: They are equity houses.

Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: They are vulture funds which are facilitated by this Government-----

Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: They have made fortunes on the backs of vulnerable citizens, many of whom have been crippled by property tax. They have had the red carpet rolled out for them. They are the same vulture funds which refuse to come before the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. Why will they not do that? What do they have to hide? We reward them by letting them avail...

Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I wish to make a correction ----

Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Senator knows that services are delivered. He should also understand -----

Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Senator is telling mistruths.