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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What Dr. McDonnell is saying is really important. Will he send a note on his new model and on those four pillars to the committee for the report it is doing, because that is exactly the way forward? At that, I will be quiet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am in the Chair so I get to ask a couple of bonus questions, if that is okay with whoever is left on the line. When will the economic model and framework on which the NERI is working be complete?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know a lot of work goes into these things. Does the NERI have concerns, because of changes related to Brexit, about the diminution of workers' rights in the North and the impact that might have? We need a congruence of workers' rights across the island, like an all-island charter of rights that would incorporate those things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Concerning trade and having access to the EU and GB markets for goods, what will the impact of not having access to services be on FDI and supply chains?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I did not realise Ms Begley wanted to contribute. I did not see her on the screen. I think she is gone now. I apologise. What is the effective tax rate in the North as it is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there an effective tax rate for FDI in the North?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What about the effective rate, where you appear within knowledge development box and R and D?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We talked about education and the labour force. How important is student mobility across the island? In particular, how important is it that we stop the brain drain and how important is encouraging students to make this island the destination? That is particularly in relation to students who go away and do not come back. This is especially in the context of high-value jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I see that. Then there is lifelong learning and its impact. Both jurisdictions are quite bad at lifelong learning and it needs to be targeted. There is also a difference because we have the DEIS programme here and have had really good results from it in trying to tackle those hard-to-reach people and to reduce the NEETs in that sense. I thank our guests from NERI for agreeing to furnish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There was a very useful presentation in the audiovisual room by the Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy, CASE, in Queen's University Belfast. It looked at an all-island approach. Ian Marshall, Martin Doherty and others were talking about what can be done there and linking it to FDI and where we are in the North on capitalising on the dual market access. As Mr. Mac Flynn said, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could I ask-----

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 44. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the procedure for triggering the human rights clauses in EU trade agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50157/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 52 of 14 November 2023, of the €60 million increase in Official Development Assistance in vote 27, how much was contained in the 'budget decisions'; and how much came from 'to be allocated' as outlined in the summer economic statement. [51715/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 345. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts removed from profile as a result of the memorandums CEO ref 09954 and 10166 of 2023, by grade for Mayo University Hospital, in tabular form; the number of headcount posts and the WTE to which these relate; the number which were new posts and the number which were replacement posts or vacant posts; and the number which were related to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts removed from profile as a result of the memorandums CEO ref 09954 and 10166 of 2023 by grade for Mayo and CHO 2, in tabular form; the number of headcount posts and the WTE to which these relate; the number which were new posts and the number which were replacement posts or vacant posts; and the number which were related to absence/leave...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 347. To ask the Minister for Health the number of job offers that have been withdrawn as a result of the memorandums CEO ref 09954 and 10166 of 2023 by grade for Mayo University Hospital, in tabular form; the number of headcount posts; and the WTE to which these relate. [51692/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 348. To ask the Minister for Health the number of job offers that have been withdrawn as a result of the memorandums CEO ref 09954 and 10166 of 2023 by grade for Mayo and CHO 2 in tabular form; the number of headcount posts; and the WTE to which these relate. [51693/23]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the amendment. I thank all the GP practices throughout the country that contacted us. I look forward to the strategic review of general practice. I accept the Minister's acknowledgement that there are outstanding issues that remain to be dealt with. There is a huge shortage of GPs, particularly in rural Ireland, and we cannot afford for mistakes like this to be left standing or...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: An election.