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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...will continue its capital expenditure, but the answer indicates that will fall short of the level of ambition outlined in the national development plan in 2021. Even with the increase of €2.25 billion over three years that has finally been announced, the underspend will reach approximately €11 billion by the end of 2026. The stability programme update, SPU, was published...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...I will ask a couple of quick questions together. We have been fighting for a long time for the fair distribution of quotas. What rationale has the Minister given for not addressing the fact that 95% of the fishing fleet is getting less than 1% of the mackerel quota and only 5% of the herring quota? The other question is, why do the inshore fishermen get none of the €420 million...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...VII for his Department that it will cover in part the requirement for private consultants. He has allocated €100,000 for policy reviews, consultancy services and research. That figure was €150,000 in 2023. In a written response to me on 20 April 2023, the Minister informed me that his Department had spent €5 million on private consultants, including over €1...

Report of Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motion (23 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the interest rate increases. In autumn of last year the State made a number of large sales of shares in banks. In September 2022 the State sold shares in Bank of Ireland to the value of €841 million, for an average of €6.17 per share. The Bank of Ireland share prices have since risen to almost €9 today. Similarly, a large sale of AIB State shares happened in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...on medicine and those opportunities that would deal with our labour force issues. Around the labour force issues, would we not be better off having a pool of labour from a population of 7 million rather than a population of 5 million? On education and higher education, I welcome that it is now explicitly set out in legislation, under the HEA Bill, that each of the higher education...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...The credit unions can perform that role. I would also say that we need a different approach in these areas. Credit unions have the potential to be a genuine community banking system. They have 3.5 million members across the State and there is real potential in that the credit unions hold over €16 billion in savings and only hold over €5 billion in loans. Unlocking the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Wally Kirwan, H.E. Dr. Eamonn McKee and Dr. Martin Mansergh (19 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...a prosperity model for a new global environment. This is concerned with bringing things forward right here, right now and what we need to do to create prosperity across the island. The scale of 7 million people as opposed to 5 million people was referred to, and what could be done in that context. Equally, the macroeconomic model being developed by the ESRI, in conjunction with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...to get the supports and services they needed? We are dealing with people's lives here, as all of the witnesses know. Ms Hughes said the total funding for on-campus mental health supports was €5 million in 2020-21 and again in 2021-22; for the past three years, the mental health budget has stayed the same. However, €3 million is announced each year as additional funding....

Irish Apprenticeship System: Statements (26 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...9,000 annual registrations by 2020. We are still below that target and the system is in disarray, so blaming young people for not taking up apprenticeships does not wash. Recently, we heard from 350 apprentices. One electrician apprentice stated, "Almost three years at it and still haven't gotten a call for SOLAS. 3 years of a supposed 4-year apprenticeship and will be at least another...

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...streamline procedures for contributing to IMF trust funds. Before considering in detail the provisions of the Bill I want first to reflect more broadly on the role of the IMF. The year 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of the 1944 conference in Bretton Woods, which led to the creation of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - now the World Bank - and the...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...blocking the TRIPS waiver in the WTO. The EU, including this Government, is prioritising the profit margins of a handful of pharma companies over human life. The official death toll from Covid is 5 million but Oxfam puts that figure closer to 17 million due to under-reporting of deaths in poorer countries. That is 17 million human beings. We need to have a debate in this House on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...apprenticeships, it would be a step forward. Critical pathways must be there for those who do not want to progress to higher education. When we look at this issue, it is quite stark. Less than 5% of almost 4,000 students who do pre-nursing in further education get access to degree courses afterwards. That is a real problem we need to address. It is simply not good enough, especially...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Special Needs Education: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...goes to the right place? In the case of a lot of these issues, there is a whole industry set up around them without ever involving the people directly affected. While I believe there is talk of €5 million being spent in recent years on legal cases, that is the tiniest tip of the iceberg. Most families cannot do that because first of all, they are in fear, and we must remember...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...easier to make the transfer from education? Are there blockages? Perhaps the Minister will speak about this. Subhead B11 indicates that student support and related expenses amounted to €19 million, which was a decrease of 5% in 2020 compared with 2019. Is this an accurate figure? Why did this happen? What caused this reduction? As part of the 2021 budget announcement, the...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jul 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...I am newly elected to this House. Bringing forward this measure on Wednesday at 11 p.m. and pushing it through is the most devious thing I have witnessed to date. This Government talks about 22 million trees per year to tackle climate change. I am not quite sure how it proposes to do that but what I know for certain is that the money tree has landed firmly in the circle of greed between...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Did the Minister say that €5 million would be re-allocated? I think that is the right thing to do with regard to the ten best-performing companies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Departmental Outputs and Expenditure - Vote 42: Minister for Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is €5 million and the Minister says it will be done in the next couple of weeks.