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Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: Fair play to Fianna Fáil for staying in the room. For God's sake, will we have to listen to the phrase "we stayed in the room" for the next 20 years?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: Fianna Fáil believes it is just so wonderful for staying in the room with its partners. Nobody has ever been able to tell me the difference between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: The budget will not end the crisis in health and housing. It will not provide for the end of water charges that are due in March 2017. It will not end the crisis in homelessness. It will not end the hardship being experienced by tenants or mortgage holders. It will not close the tax loopholes that the partners in government deny exist in the first place and that this country has lost...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is Senator Reilly sure? He should speak through the Chair.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: A couple of things were mentioned that I cannot let pass. Senator Reilly will be familiar with this from his time in the Department of Health. First, it has been said that what was introduced today is a budget for auctioneers and developers. I believe it is. It will benefit auctioneers and developers and do nothing to ease the homelessness crisis. When I became a member of Mayo County...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: They were to be representative of the public. The other issue is the home help packages. I heard members of Fianna Fáil saying it was terrible that the packages and home help hours were not provided. We know what Fianna Fáil did to home help hours and home help packages and how Fine Gael continued the Fianna Fáil approach to health. This budget is absolutely under-whelming...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is no problem at all. Senator Gavan will have something to say.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thought this was a day when we could not add any more to the confusion regarding whether it was a Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael budget. I thank the Minister of State for taking the time to come in to us. There are two things I would like to say about this budget. The first is that it will go down in history as the triple F budget - the Fianna Fáil budget, the Fine Gael budget and...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is that as opposed to leprechaun economics?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I was disappointed that so few Senators attended in the Chamber for the budget debate yesterday. At one point I looked around and there was only one Fianna Fáil Senator and one Fine Gael Senator in the Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: We had two hours to discuss the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: You did, and I appreciate that, but yesterday was an important day and I would have liked to have seen a greater attendance in the Seanad for the debate on the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: It may do, but I am allowed express an opinion and I am not-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: In fairness, I did not mention any names.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am just saying that, as a new Senator, I was a bit surprised that there was not a bigger interest in the discussion in the Seanad on an important issue like the budget. I will leave it at that. The budget failed to demonstrate a real and tangible commitment to decades of neglect in rural Ireland. If this is the best the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil combo has to offer on the centenary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am not a permanent member of this committee but when I heard Leader companies were coming here this morning, I was particularly interested. I have worked for 13 years in community development and I am very familiar with the Leader programme. I will set out my comments in terms of what I think of the major mistakes that have been made, whether they were made by design or by accident in how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I apologise as I missed a section of contributions because I had to speak in the Seanad. What is the delegation's experience of democracy that it faces in terms of the LCDCs and where the decisions are made between advisory boards? They had been made by people within the communities. Does the delegation find it more or less effective now? I was particularly interested about the comments...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I probably do not even need the five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I want the Leader groups to continue talking to us, telling us about the challenges and successes they have. I thank the witnesses for outlining some of them today. There was a real and important role for local authorities in this new Leader programme. We had transnational projects in which they could have played a role, ensuring that models of best practice in projects were duplicated and...