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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (2 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...response. I am trying to get greater detail and confirmation of whether the contingency reserve is now within core rather than non-core expenditure. Is the contingency reserve intended to be a long-term feature in our budgets?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...before the Minister had his homework done. Will the Taoiseach provide an update as to why this emergency funding has been delayed and when it will be paid out? Will he also confirm that the long-promised legislation underpinning the wider scheme will be published and whether that scheme will open in 2024 or 2025?

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...sleeping on the streets. People can accept the use of hotels as an emergency response but the Government is building an industry around it. We must remember that problems in health and housing existed long before the invasion of Ukraine and the increase in asylum seekers. The challenges that are faced by this country are not insurmountable. The Government should not let them be...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...connection fees for other group water schemes in Mayo or the west. We would like to try to clear up how much the connection fee will be, what that connection fee will be made up of and for how long people have to pay for it. It was my understanding that the connection fee has to be agreed to and paid up. Off the top of my head, the latest one we dealt with was regarding the Murrisk...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...it went in in 2018. Could we clear that up? Would there have been an issue if there had been the capacity in the treatment plant from the beginning? Because this was going through the river, how long did the Natura report take? If those two variables were taken out of it, would we be in this situation today or would it have been much more straightforward?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. On the Natura impact assessment report, how long does this add to the time required for a scheme?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...sign up to this and then it holds up the whole scheme. I am trying to find some solutions here. Does anyone here know what will be the duration of the scheme? Once the construction starts, how long will it take before the water is available?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If the Taoiseach could provide that note, as well as details on the timeframe envisaged, it would be appreciated. It took a long time to get terms of reference for the inquiry that would, in some way, go towards uncovering the truth around the valproate scandal. I heard what the Taoiseach said about immigration. The fact is we need a national strategy that is fair, efficient and firm and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the public spending code. Changes to the public sector spending code were announced early last year. It took until the end of the year before the infrastructure guidelines were published. How long will it be before we see the reforms adopted by the Departments? Most importantly, how will the Minister's Department measure the effectiveness of this change?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There is no transparency around these contracts, even long after the deals have been signed, so we have to ask where the oversight and accountability are. When the Minister had this portfolio in 2017, the IMF recommended Ireland reduce the sums Departments could spend on PPP contracts. Departments are not supposed to spend more than 10% of the capital budget, as the Minister knows, on...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...fact of the matter is that the demand for cancer services is not being met in a timely and safe way because of the lack of political will to invest in the very basic infrastructure, particularly along the western seaboard. Target waiting times for cancer tests are not being met. Cancer surgeries are frequently delayed due to shortages of staffing, beds and theatre space. Expensive...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Let me be clear, Sinn Féin supports the setting up of a sovereign wealth fund. Long-term strategic planning of our public finances across the island is at the core of our vision for a new and united Ireland. There is widespread agreement that windfall corporation tax should not be spent on current expenditure. The unreliable nature of corporation tax means that is the prudent thing to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: One of the biggest constraints pointed out to us by business is the lack of housing and the housing crisis. Looking at the target of 30,000 units, we know, and have known for a long time, that this is kind of meaningless in terms of what we need to do to address the legacy that exists in this area. How concerned would the witnesses be about this aspect? How important would they think it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...physically present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. Witnesses are again reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or otherwise...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Mar 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1451. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the public health sector special scheme for long-Covid each month since it was introduced in July 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12685/24]

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...Thanks to Karen and the patient advocacy group she founded, the Organisation for Anticonvulsant Syndrome, OACS, Ireland, ... there are now considerably heightened warnings about the dangers. The long-awaited promised inquiry has been far too slow. I understand that a chair for this inquiry is now sought. It is imperative that there are no further delays and that the inquiry is...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Nursing Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Where does the responsibility lie for people who are in long-term nursing care and have to access vital hospital services or orthodontic services. I have a case of a person who has been given a bill of almost €2,500 to get the necessary services. The person does not have an income, is on the fair deal scheme, topped up by his disability payment and his family does not have any means...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Impact of Climate on Public Finances: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...McMahon for his opening statement. Many of the costs look set to merge towards the end of the current decade. That is something which is not covered by budgetary forecasts. Ideally, how long would budgetary forecasts extend in the context of covering these costs? Is the forecasting horizon as it stands realistic in light of the backloading as opposed to front-loading of things instead?...

Broadcasting (Oversight of RTÉ Accounts) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Bringing RTÉ under the Comptroller and Auditor General is long overdue. Today, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, Eoghan Finn in his office and the Sinn Féin members on the Committee of Public Accounts have presented legislation that the Government should have introduced years ago. I have been calling since last July for RTÉ's exemption from the State audit to be removed to allow the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...report outlines how taxation can be used to move construction workers and companies away from activity such as office space, hotels and car parks and towards the building of homes. Sinn Féin has long put this forward as a solution to increase housing delivery, and we proposed this in the budget as well. Now that the idea is coming from the ESRI I hope the Minister will take it on...