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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wonder about the effectiveness of the different mediums, but that is fine.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The long statement was good and interesting. I will have to leave during the slot to deal with the Finance (No. 2) Bill, so I will just ask Professor McMahon a priority question. Maybe I will have time to contribute again later. Could Professor McMahon outline exactly how he determined that the Government had €850 million in unallocated current expenditure moneys to cover the pay...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is on the Department of public expenditure's desk now to sign off on. Is that correct?

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I cannot believe the response the Minister has given this. I really thought that he was going to come in here, listen to what was being said and commit to bring forward a Revised Estimate for health because he will have seen by now the disastrous decisions that were made in the budget, but he did not. Instead, he has come in here to paint a picture that is not the reality on the ground....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 59. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the capital investment in Defence spending in Budget 2024 is far below the target set in document level of Ambition 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50894/23]

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Sinn Féin is in favour of any measures which will contribute to the safety and protection of children in online spaces. We worked hard on ensuring additional measures for online safety, particularly for children, in our work on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act. For example, we worked with other Members of the Houses and a large number of children's charities and advocacy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of the UK's Illegal Migration Act 2023 on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Corrigan for his opening statement. I have two quick questions. If this can be done in the way it has been done, and it is repugnant to the international and legally binding agreement that is the Good Friday Agreement, what else can be done to undermine that agreement? The situation poses that question. Would a bill of rights or a charter of rights, as were provided for in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of the UK's Illegal Migration Act 2023 on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Corrigan for that. One thing the committee can do here, not just specifically in regard to this Bill, is to ask the Irish Government to put additional focus on the bill of rights and the all-island charter of rights. Some good may come out of the awfulness of this, and Mr. Corrigan also mentioned the legacy Bill in that context. I thank him for that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Kinnane for his opening statement. First, what was the rationale in 2021 for setting the ELS at 3% of the core current expenditure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If the ELS was set at 3% in 2021, why was it then reduced to 2.4%?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Last year, social protection had lower than anticipated expenditure. That was €300 million, so it was €300 million of a clawback and this year, it was €500 million. I cannot get a satisfactory explanation as to how the figure of €500 million was come at. We just have not had an explanation as to why it changed. Last year it changed by €300 million and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am trying to understand better what the process is.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am trying to get the explanation for this. Basically, when Mr. Kinnane had the engagement with the Departments, one would imagine that, because of high inflation and all of that, they would go the other way rather than cutting it back down. Is that a technical decision, a political decision or a combination of both? How does it land?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: At what point did the witnesses become aware of the fact that €500 million was overestimated across all of the lines?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It was €717 million the year before.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 148. To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding the appointment of an independent chairperson to the sodium valproate inquiry; the reason why a chairperson has not been appointed to date; when he expects the chairperson to be in place and for the inquiry to begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50139/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The €500 million as opposed to the €300 million.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I get that process and everything else. Regarding the Department of Health, there is a reference to €708 million. Last year, the figure was €896 million. Would that be communicated by the Department to the Minister for Health? When would it be done? Considering that we have had high inflation, and because it had increased so much, the figure just does not add up. You would...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What year was that?