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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: A great deal of money is being spent on consultants under this flooding issue in coastal communities. It is hugely important to have proper and meaningful engagement with the local communities. Sometimes, the least expensive things, like gabion baskets, can help. It was obvious where these worked in certain places instead of building huge walls at huge expense. Local knowledge is vital in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: Do we have sufficient staff within the OPW and local authorities to be able to fast-track this work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I do not think they do, to be honest. It is disgraceful that local authorities are not applying for money that is available or that they are not applying for it at the pace needed to protect communities. There is a big fall-down there. We have seen cutbacks in local and regional roads funding. In Mayo alone, €100 million was cut off the budget over a four or five-year period. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: The OPW can play a major role where there are empty buildings or buildings that are not being used. These buildings could be given to local communities, particularly now with the national rural development programme coming online. Funding can be secured to revitalise local communities and every effort should be made to do that. There are such projects in Mayo. My final question relates...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: The damage has been done over the years because of the accumulation of the shortfalls. I know that the Minister of State is trying to make up and fill the gaps. However, it is extraordinary to suggest that there is a great deal of money for roads when that is not the reality. We are working backwards all the time. In fact, even in the past six weeks in Mayo the roads programme has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I wish we had a few more hotel rooms too.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am offering. I am surprised a man from Cork is confused, but we in County Mayo are very confused this week.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: We will leave that issue to one side. I draw the attention of the House to Sinn Féin's alternative budget which was published earlier today. It is a fully costed alternative to the failed policies on tax breaks for those who least need them which have resulted in a lack of investment in key services for those who need them the most. For far too long, any proposal Sinn Féin has...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: Senator Buttimer should read the document.

Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister for his presentation. It has been over a month since the European Commission ruled in favour of the Irish people who pay their taxes and demanded that Apple do likewise. Immediately, even before he had seen the decision, the Minister indicated that this State would appeal a decision to return a decade of unpaid tax deemed by the Commission to be due to the Irish people....

Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: We should have a chance to respond.

Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does the Senator mean the leprechaun economics?

Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: No.

Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: We did not get that far. It is a work in progress.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I want to clarify remarks I made yesterday on the alternative budget and the fiscal space available to this country. Yesterday, the Leader said that Sinn Féin's fiscal space was multiples of the figures available and he is correct. The EU fiscal rules allow for spending on capital investment to be averaged out over four years and, therefore, only use a quarter of the fiscal space in...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: Fine Gael is more than entitled to argue against an increase on spending on capital investment and the employment and improvement that will come with that move. The party cannot disregard an EU directive that the Minister for Finance signed up to and yet claim that it is fantasy. The party should know that the EU directive was brought in specifically to encourage increased spending on...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am more than happy to share the document with the Government and discuss any matter that is not clear enough for the parties. I will not accept sweeping statements without substance. Sinn Féin's alternative budget has taken account of the impact that Brexit is likely to have on the Irish economy.We have provided €20 million for North-South projects in order to offset the...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will refer to this matter again tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is a question of fairness.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Manus Cooney (5 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am from Ballycroy, County Mayo, and live in Belmullet, which is between Achill and Ballina. With a name like Cooney, there is nowhere else but Achill Mr. Cooney could come from. It is lovely to have him here and he is very welcome. I also thank Billy Lawless for facilitating Mr. Cooney's visit. I will raise a couple of questions that are asked of Senators all the time. Mexico received...