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Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...are stark. This is the account from just one young woman who is trying to ease her suffering. She is a 40-year-old mother of three young children living in rural Mayo and suffering with debilitating nerve pain in her face, a condition called trigeminal neuralgia. She cannot access the care she needs. She has been in and out of Sligo hospital where she was left on a corridor in severe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Cody stated earlier that one business owed the largest sum and Revenue was waiting to see what would happen with that. Would that not suggest that business had not needed warehousing at all, given it was able to pay back the full sum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What I am trying to get at is the equity and fairness in this. The €153 million could be one company, two companies or 2,000 companies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...one young woman, a constituent of mine, trying to ease her suffering. I will read out her own words: I am a 40-year-old mother of three young children living in rural Mayo suffering with debilitating nerve pain in my face called trigeminal neuralgia. I cannot access the care I need. I have been in and out of Sligo hospital, left on a corridor in severe pain for over 36 hours, sent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. What Professor Flanagan said at our previous meeting was profound. He asked how it is that we cannot translate national strategies into action. We have strategies coming out of our ears. The woman to whom I refer who has been in non-stop pain for six weeks. I know there are people who have been in pain for six months, six years and beyond. The Government, which has been in power...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the way up from Mayo this morning I listened to the sister of Anne Marren from Sligo talk about the horror of 17 May 1974 when her family waited for her at the train station in Sligo, as many do when people are returning from Dublin to rural Ireland. She described what the other families had gone through as well. I welcome the families here to be with us this evening, and also the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank our guests for their statements. One of the statements, perhaps Ms Larkin's, suggested there is an urgency to this issue but there is no urgency if we have been sitting on something for 12 months and nothing has been done. The first point I want to speak about is why people are not applying and there are such low numbers of applicants for the scheme in Mayo. Mr. Kelly has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The scheme is obviously flawed for all the reasons that have been repeatedly outlined. The houses at Lios na Circe in Westport were sold by the local authority through a housing body. There were 52 houses. One house at a time is being looked at when we know that all the houses are likely to have been impacted. Can those houses be looked at as a whole, knowing that? Why are we continuing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Even though it is a semi-detached house, so Mr. Espey is stopping the one that does pass. Come on. We really need some common sense. The homeowners have provided the common sense. That needs to be looked at. Why are we putting the cart before the horse here in recommending remedial options 2 to 5 when none of those options is based on any specific science research? Mayo homeowners...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The council has departmental approval for that at this point in terms of what it is trying to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: So it was? We were aware of it at that time.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I was really glad to hear one of the Government TDs at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach earlier say a number of times that we should declare a housing emergency. Even the Government's own TDs are saying it. Its councillors and candidates on the ground recognise it and they are saying the same thing. The Minister needs to listen to them, but they...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...is not supposed to be based on the type of disability but on the level of physical or mental impairment if the child's needs are substantially more than those of other children but this is not what is happening on the ground. Instead families in real need are being denied support. In this case, the mother applied, appealed, went through the oral hearing and was ultimately refused. At...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Ministers for being here. It gives us a good opportunity to examine the stability programme update. Housing is the number one issue facing the country so I will seek clarity on the indicative allocation for housing. We know that €3.9 billion is allocated to the Department as a whole in 2024 and that will increase to €4.3 billion in 2026. However, a large share,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That may also apply to some of my other questions. All these issues have become more important as the Government is legislating to lock away €6 billion each year. This is likely to mean that in the coming years the Government will have limited space to increase capital spending on the building of social and affordable homes above what is already accounted for in the base. Another...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is completely splitting hairs. The grant does not cover 100% of the work. That is a fact. If it did, I would not be here giving the case of a woman in her 50s parenting on her own in Westport. I could give Mr. Rafferty details of many more cases. Should homeowners in Mayo highlight for Mr. Rafferty a number of cases that will tell him that the grant does not cover 100% of the work?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That was not the remit. It is not what the Minister asked us to do. The terms of reference for the group were to produce a report based on how well the scheme was delivering within the current legislative framework, guidelines and regulations that were there. So it was how well it was delivering on that basis. It was not to look at issues such as those mentioned by the Deputy, like cost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Representatives from Engineers Ireland were before the committee last week. We have spoken at previous meetings about foundations not being tested and so on. Riddle me this: how can Mr. Rafferty say a scheme is operating satisfactorily – and the Minister, the report, the steering group all agree that it is operating satisfactorily – when we have a situation where there is real...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand that and we have gone over that. I want to move on a bit. Something else does not add up either. Why has the Department removed the science and testing by the chartered engineers registered under the IS 465 standard report and the recommendations of option 1 from the new scheme? Why was the homeowner's engineer with building condition assessment replaced? Why replace the...