Results 1-18 of 18 for destroyed speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...waiting list, on top of the 1,235 people that are on that list. Everyone suffers when the Government fails to deliver. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have designed and delivered a housing policy that continues to destroy the lives of many people in Mayo and other areas. The disturbing cost of the psychological damage being done to children, who have nowhere to call home, will impact...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...for the least well-off in our society is collapsing. Access to timely GP care is no longer guaranteed in many communities. There is a severe lack of community beds. Nursing homes are struggling to stay open. The lack of investment in mental health has destroyed lives and wrecked families. Nowhere is change more badly needed. For too long under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, our...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...in the whole of County Mayo, and most of them are out of reach and unaffordable for too many people. This is the legacy of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. We cannot let it become normal. Lives are being destroyed and people are living in fear. When we look at the homeless figures, there are 3,699 children and 12,441 adults those do not even show the real extent of the problem because...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...to act and when limited reforms were made. The transfer of wealth from household to corporate profit hurts the elderly, workers and families and it has huge implications on people's lives. It also destroys local economies and negatively impacts on the domestic economy. I questioned the Minister, Deputy Ryan, for months on this issue. Every time, he assured me that electricity...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...sides. Their costs are going up and they see a reduction in the customer spend. When workers and families are hard pressed, local businesses struggle too. To use the language of economists, demand is being destroyed, and that is spreading through local economies. For more than a year, I have been calling on the Government to take action to address the artificially high electricity...

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...of this legislation came from the Central Bank four years ago. All of these reforms were really put in motion by the experience of the global financial crisis. The financial crash in 2008 utterly destroyed public confidence in the financial sector. Indeed, it utterly destroyed this country and we are still paying the price for it in much of what we talk about today in education,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: .... Another man in his 80s has been unable to leave hospital since August. Is there ever an evaluation done of the policies? This was a Fianna Fáil policy, as the Taoiseach knows, in 2008 and 2009, to destroy home care in the way that it did. What are we doing to fix it? I have a thick file on what happened in 2008 and 2009 in home care.

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...was rife in this country. That is the trade-off they see. It really makes me angry to have to hear what the Minister has to say around this. I have worked on this issue for more over a decade. I have seen how it has destroyed people's lives. To pass it off as somehow the fault of a party that has not been in government in all that time is ridiculous. Mayo homeowners impacted by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...that the Minister inherited the criteria. We must be mindful that she inherited them from her own Government, from Fianna Fáil, when the former Minister, Mary Coughlan, set out in 2009 and 2010 to destroy school transport in the way that it has been done. She segregated children into those eligible for concessionary tickets and those eligible for free transport. The school...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In a case where there is malicious intent, say where somebody wants to destroy the reputation of a charity because of a personality conflict or whatever it might be, what protections will be in the Bill against such an occurrence?

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ..., dedication, experience and knowledge of communities, which is invaluable. The Minister of State is making a mistake. He is making the same mistake that was made when the home help services were destroyed through a similar type of model to that now being proposed. Hours were cut. The same happened to community development projects. There are long-term consequences. The Government...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (3 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...on the fishing industry and the treatment of our fishing families. It is absolutely scandalous. As he said, we are the laughing stock of the EU. Fishing communities all around this country are being destroyed. Fishing communities in my own county of Mayo are being decimated and the Government is standing by and watching this happen. It has to stop. Yesterday, an electricity...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Parks (23 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...when national parks and wildlife and Government have enjoyed the co-operation of landowners and people around the national park? For many years, relationships have been built up but they have been destroyed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools: Discussion (5 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...about the issue? It is almost like there is an industry around it - I sometimes feel the same about mental health - but we do not actually get to take action. Young people's lives are being destroyed while we analyse all this. All of us on the committee, the Government, academics and everyone else have a responsibility to ensure there is implementation and resources for schools. They do...

Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...facts of the matter. These are people who were already in their 50s when they had to bear the costs of austerity, the bank bailout and reckless lending, and everything else, when this country was destroyed. They will not get a loan now. It is fine to state that there is a suite of measures, but I am fed up hearing about this suite of measures. Taxi drivers in that age range will not...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...does not matter to them how clean the buses are if their children cannot get on them. I am not putting all this at the Minister's door but I am putting it at her party's door because Fianna Fáil destroyed school transport in 2008 when it conducted a review of the system and since then further changes have been made by Fine Gael. I am shocked that the Green Party does not have a...

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: ...on the systematic destruction of the community development and anti-poverty and equality movement is ongoing upstairs in the AV room. They are discussing community development and how it has been destroyed during the years. I do not mean to take from the various schemes, grants and moneys that are moved here and there. However, I disagree with the Minister on SICAP. Some good work is...