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

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...to where it is supposed to get to but you then evaluate that along the system to make sure it delivers the outcomes the Minister has committed to. Committing money into the ether and hoping it lands in the right place and has the right results is just not acceptable in this day and age. I am asking for this woman, who is in this severe pain today, and her family will be getting further...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (9 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that expenditure for the land development agency is outside of the general Government balance; if he will provide detail on any projected expenditure of the Land Development Agency that has an Exchequer cost or any impact on the general Government balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (9 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected number of units that will be delivered by the Land Development Agency in each year from 2024 to 2027; the type of housing units that will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21149/24]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the Government fails to deliver social and affordable homes. Less supply means higher house prices and unaffordable rents. These failures mean more and more of peoples' hard-earned wages being handed over to landlords and banks. It is hard to overstate the economic damage this is doing overall. The average age of the people who can buy houses is 40. This is the single biggest factor...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would indeed. If the Minister could clarify, is ISIF lending to the Land Development Agency is completely off the balance sheet?

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...much anxiety and impacts on the well-being of farmers. The ACRES 1 payments that were due to be paid to applicants last November or December were to be based on the scoring of the applicants’ lands for biodiversity. Advisers spent all of last summer scoring and duly transmitted those results to ACRES while the scores for the commonages were to be completed by the Department....

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: So once the land is protected there is no benefit to having a greenway there beforehand or afterwards. We then must put in the infrastructure along the line to make it happen. Is that the case?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (9 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost to the Exchequer resulting from funding the Land Development Agency either directly or indirectly through other public bodies such as the ISIF each year since 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15005/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (9 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the impact on the Exchequer of the Government decision in 2023 to provide the Land Development Agency with an additional €1.25 billion in funding through the ISIF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15006/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...response to plans by a French investment company to plant an enormous plantation of Sitka spruce forest in the area while at the same time, young people cannot get planning permission on their own lands. Sinn Féin called then and calls again now for the new planting to be done by public bodies, farmers and co-operatives. We should be supporting farmers and foresters rather than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...really good businesses - multinationals and indigenous - but without the infrastructure. We have come through a recession. I recall meeting Mr. Power before when he told us we would have a soft landing, when at the time there was a concentration on construction. The way to protect ourselves from the next recession-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ..., because of high inflation and all of that, they would go the other way rather than cutting it back down. Is that a technical decision, a political decision or a combination of both? How does it land?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...be removed from EU funding programmes such as Horizon Europe. Over the past seven years. Israel has received €1.24 billion under the horizon programme alone. By comparison, that is more than Ireland received as a full EU member. This is a power lever to pressure Israel. I called on the Government to oppose the renewal of the Horizon Europe membership two years ago, right after...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...We are paying €20 million a year in rent. This costs more in the long run, and the sites and buildings involved will never be owned by the State. It leaves future health budgets in the hands of developers and landlords. The Government is doing the same thing in third level education, with controversial public private partnerships for technological universities. The latter are...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...because I am mindful of the time just before the financial crash when I put to an economist our overreliance on the construction sector. He said everything would be fine and we would have a soft landing, except, and he almost whispered it, if there were an external economic shock. Sometimes we see the parallels. I do not want to dwell too much on it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: .... I am very interested to see what the breakdown will be in terms of how much is kept and how much is invested. In that sense, is the Government considering investing in physical assets such as land and infrastructure in the State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: With regard to transport, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, comes down to Sligo and says the N17 is halted and is off the radar, when a lot of money has already been spent on it, the land has been sterilised all around it and things like that. How is that decision reached?

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the Green Party's partners in government. What is going on between them is not my business but they must get it sorted. I am not going to take lectures from the Green Party. I am from rural Ireland and from a farming community and have been dealing with farming organisations and farmers across the board. Since the nitrates directive in 1997, I have heard all of the promises that were...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...visited last week and alarmed people when he said that there would be no funding available for the scheme for many years even though it had progressed to the planning and development stage. The landowners along the corridor obviously have their land sterilised in this, but people want a straight answer as to what is happening. There is no point in the Government Deputies coming to the...