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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Can Ms O'Connor answer the overall question, on seeking expressions of interest? Does it mean there is an absolute commitment to developing the project, funding it and resourcing it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I ask that the HSE would give me a written answer to that, and to prioritise it and to understood the seriousness of the situation for the population in Erris.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is exactly the reason, when we launched our alternative budget today, we allowed for a decrease in wages and salaries for Deputies and Senators. It was to ensure that an increase could be given to councillors. I am sure everybody here would agree with that, even Fianna Fáil Members.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: They are picking on me again, a Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: There needs to be fairness but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. People have to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. Today sees the launch of Sinn Féin's 2020 alternative budget. It is the ninth alternative budget from my colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty. We look forward to the day when he will be Minister for Finance presenting the actual budget. This alternative...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Tell that to the people protesting outside the gate. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are making bad short-term decisions that are costing the taxpayer billions of euro and they are failing to intervene to deal with the out of control costs. Before anybody says it, and the Leader will probably say it when replying, everything in this alternative budget is fully costed. I ask people to read...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is about fairness and equality. It is not polarising.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is not polarising. How can the Leader say it is polarising in the context of-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Has the Leader read it?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: When?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: What part of it is fantasy?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is lies.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is nonsense and the Leader knows it.

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I commend the Tánaiste and the Minister of State for holding firm and for not giving in to the bullying behaviour we have witnessed over the last years, months and weeks. I commend the 27 member states who have stood by their word. When Michel Barnier was in the Dáil he gave a firm commitment at that time, and I acknowledge that he has kept his word. The very big difference this...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I do not say this to be argumentative because I really believe that it is very important that we are all on the same page and that there is unity of purpose in addressing the challenges of Brexit, but people who vote for abstentionist candidates are also decent people.

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Some 340,000 people voted for Sinn Féin in the last election in the full knowledge that we are an abstentionist party-----

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: The reason-----

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Perhaps I will tease it out a bit. People voted for abstentionist MPs because they see Westminster as not as the solution but as the problem. The more we see coming out of Westminster the more we recognise that is the problem. When we consider the Six Counties and the neglect over the years and decades and the disparity between North and South, there is an enormous neglect there that has...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I do not think they are having an influence. Then one is in a different situation. To say that also ignores the fact that there is enormous work being done by our MPs and by other MPs in Westminster. One does not have to sit, or lie as the case may be, on the green seats to be able to have an impact. Right from the beginning we have had a case for the North to achieve designated special...