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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I know what PPPs are. The average PPP contract is procured by the National Development Finance Agency. One third of the cost of the contract is to pay for services that would normally be delivered by the public sector. That could be cleaners in schools, security in technological universities or maintenance of public housing that should be managed by the local...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The NDP set the target of expenditure as a share of GNI to properly account for inflation, especially when we are talking about a multiannual plan and indeed a multi-billion euro plan like the NDP. Since 2021 we have seen the high levels of inflation, particularly in construction, yet the funding was never adjusted to account for it. Budget after budget, the Government has acted like...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What I am really concerned about is the deficit that is already there in terms of infrastructure, particularly in the region I come from, and the under-investment in the west and north-west region. Having not accounted for inflation in the way we do, I am concerned about the hole that is there and the cumulative impact it would have. That was my question. I see now in my own constituency...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 44. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital underspend based on the targets set in the 2021 review of the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17724/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have raised the issue of capital expenditure with the Minister on many occasions. The NDP in 2021 set a target of 5% of GNI* to be invested in capital projects. The NDP states "the Government has decided to maintain the average level of investment in the new NDP at approximately 5 per cent of GNI* over the period 2021-2030". This has not happened in a single year since the NDP was...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a plan or strategy in place for the Office of Public Works to reduce the reliance on leased properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17730/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has engaged with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the potential of extending his remit to cover commercial public bodies in a dual-audit capacity in order to ensure greater oversight and accountability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17729/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact construction inflation has had on the cost of delivering flood protection projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17728/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the claims on, and settlements made by, the State Claims Agency in each year since 2011, broken down by category; the amount and percentage of total cost of settlements spent on legal fees, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17748/24]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In September 2022, the Minister for Education visited the Educate Together school in Castlebar. Amid much fanfare and photographs, a promise was made to the children, parents and teachers that they would be provided with a new school. At the time, the Minister asked them to provide a shortlist of suitable sites, which the school did immediately afterwards. Some 18 months later and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are only two minutes left in this slot, so maybe we will go on to the next round-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----unless Mr. Brady or Mr. Hazzard wants to come in for the two minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Mr. Brady have any questions? I have a number of questions that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Grand. We will move on to Deputy Smith.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Chris Hazzard MP has one question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think Dr. Mitchell for being here. I was really keen to have her here since I first saw the launch of her book. I have her book here and it is fantastic. It makes a really positive contribution to the whole discussion and the discussions that we are having on this committee, which obviously surround women and the Constitution and the role that women can play in it and what we need to do....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I refer to structures to facilitate the dialogue so that we are not reinventing the wheel and that each conversation is adding to the other conversations in it. Sometimes in community development we get stuck at a level. What framework do we need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is it a digital portal that could be used for feeding into the citizens' assembly whereby we would have everything captured together? I am speaking about bridging the gap between the influence and the policies, and the voices of women and others being heard, and bringing this to a point where they can see real change and their values being reflected in what is designed in policy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is the framework I am trying to get at. I do not know whether it would be under the shared island unit, the Irish Government or who it would be. I am just trying to get in my head exactly what it would look like and where it would stand. It is almost like uploading the various pieces of academic information to a central portal. This discussion that we have to capture is not being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.