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Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the gates this evening and the students who are here this evening, including the new student union representatives, for pushing back against this desperate situation. Parents and students need to know how much they will be paying in nine weeks time. They need to know this now. People have to budget. Members of this Government do not seem to get this but my constituents do. Ger in east...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, after line 31, to insert the following: “Investigation Report 11. The Minister will provide a report to the Dáil, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, investigating the possibility of lowering the age at which citizens can access their State pension, in accordance with the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, to the age of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If the Department could do so, that would be great because it is important. Obviously, competitiveness is to the fore in all our activities but we must ensure we do not reduce regulations. Everybody wants to have less red tape and to streamline things to make it easier for businesses to operate. I would not like to see this space being used as an opportunity by vested interests to unravel...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Strategies (19 Jun 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for that update and welcome the work that has been done. What engagement has the Department had with the unions on the action plan? My fear is that workers' rights will be sacrificed on the altar of productivity. We need to be very careful in this space to bring workers and businesses together and ensure that there is not further division and polarisation between them....

Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The legislation proposed by the Minister, if enacted, will bring Ireland in step with an EU directive which should have been transposed into domestic law in 1983. While I welcome the fact that it is better late than never that the Government is attempting to provide these protections to Irish workers, I cannot help but wonder how many more workers could have been protected if this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...It is a wonderful position that comes with responsibility. It is a prestigious position in the sense that this is the only Oireachtas committee that also includes the voices of MPs. The job of work for this committee is expressed in its title, that is, the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. It fits in with the programme for Government. I was glad to see in the programme...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Business of Joint Committee (15 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Maidin mhaith. Fáilte go léir. Apologies have been received from Deputies Eamon Scanlon and Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire. Before we proceed, I have a few housekeeping matters to go through as follows. In accordance with Standing Orders, I wish to make the following declaration. I do solemnly declare that I will duly and faithfully and to the best of my knowledge and ability...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (14 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How much more do homeowners impacted by the defective blocks in Mayo and other counties have to endure, whether they have partially completed their rebuilds or whether they are trying to get into the scheme? At every age homeowners are given assurances that they would not be disadvantaged by the timing that they entered the schemes. Now homeowners, who are in the middle of rebuilding their...

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: While I welcome the fact that at last the Government is acting upon the recommendations of the Commission on Pensions, which it established, and is introducing legislation to prohibit employers setting a mandatory retirement age for workers, I am calling on the Government to reduce the age at which citizens can access their State pension to 65 years old. People have not forgotten that this...

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...and services that are traded across the world and of our indigenous companies and entrepreneurs who have taken risks and successfully navigated world markets. I recognise the immense contribution to the national economy of our export trade and the role that FDI has played and the truth is that in this time of global political and economic uncertainty and volatility in our trading...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Last month we learned that Meta is to cut 5% of its staff globally and last year Intel and TikTok notified staff of impending job losses. As the Minister rightly said, there is a significant contraction and it is very important we have a plan in place as this is likely to happen again in the future. Last night we talked with the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, about AI and the implications...

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Comhghairdeas to the Minister of State. I wish her the best of luck in her new role. I also congratulate the Minister, Deputy Calleary, for the work he has done in this area. I know the Minister of State will acknowledge that we are still behind the curve. I welcome some of the initiatives she has put forward and made us aware of today. I would also like a copy of her speech. It is very...

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move: That Dáil Éireann: - commends the voluntary and community efforts of everyone who stepped up to assist individuals, families, communities, businesses, sporting groups and voluntary organisations following the havoc caused by Storm Éowyn; - recognises the vital communication role played by local, community and regional radio stations; - recognises the outstanding...

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As we make statements in the House on the programme for Government, I am acutely aware of the people throughout the State who have been failed since the Government took office. We know this has not happened today or yesterday. It has been happening for years, as we can see in the infrastructural deficits, particularly in the west. Mar a dúirt mé inné the response to the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (6 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I congratulate Deputy Currie as well. I look forward to working with her again in her capacity as a Teachta Dála. I worked with her before on North-South matters of peace and reconciliation. That is very important to both of us. I look forward to working in that vein with Deputy Currie. I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Heydon, on his new role. The first challenge for him to...

Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I too wish Deputy Catherine Murphy well. She has spoken truth to power so many times. That has been really important. She has made a significant difference in all of her contributions, even before I came into this Dáil. I wish her very well and thank her for her work. I thank the Social Democrats for bringing the motion forward this morning. I cannot believe that we are here at...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As the Minister said, this is largely a technical Bill providing for a three-year funding cycle that allows for the commission to fund the pay and pensions of elected Members of the House and their staff and other workings of the Oireachtas. I understand the urgency of that. I take this opportunity to pay tribute and to thank the staff here in the Houses of the Oireachtas. We all know this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Enterprise Sector (24 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There needs to be an awareness of what is available and what supports can be accessed by social enterprises. The supports are often beyond the reach of social enterprises. They are so busy with what they are trying to do within their communities that we must make it as easy as possible. I, too, recently met with Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland, SERI, the representative body for...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...a protest on this very issue outside Mayo University Hospital, MUH, just last Thursday. I know the Acting Chair is very familiar with it. More than 100 protesters - members of trade unions like Fórsa, SIPTU and the INMO - were there on the day. I commend them on giving up their time to highlight the precarious position this Government has left them in regarding the delivery of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their statements and for taking the time to be with us today. All of the statements were really strong with regard to what we are trying to do on this committee. What we are trying to do is prepare and examine constitutional change and the constitutional future, how we prepare for that and how we ensure all voices are heard, and particularly for this piece of work...