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Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...essential services. There are few services more essential than broadband, which has an impact on healthcare delivery in respect of X-rays and so on, job opportunities and many other issues. We saw with JobPath what can happen when we hand the delivery of services over to the private sector. We keep querying the €159 million cost associated with that but have not been able to get...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I believe Pat Spillane called it right. I do not propose to repeat what he said.

Seanad: Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland: Statements (27 Mar 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I welcome the family of Councillor Patsy Kelly to the Chamber today and I support their campaign for truth and justice. I appreciate the Tánaiste coming to the House today, especially in the context of the ongoing challenges presented by Brexit. To be able to look to the future we have to deal with the past. We know this because we have listened to the families of the Bloody Sunday...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...the decision on whether to prosecute British troops from the Parachute Regiment involved in the Bloody Sunday massacre. Her remarks also come after the courts handed down welcome decisions in the Pat Finucane and Pearse Jordan cases and after a decision was made to fund the legacy cases, something called for by relatives' organisations and the Lord Chief Justice in the North for years....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: First, I send congratulations and solidarity to the family of Pat Finucane on the significant victory in the Supreme Court in London. For the first time there is judicial recognition that no proper investigation under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights was carried out into his murder 30 years ago. The family have struggled for years to get this far and have shown dignity...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...were archaic or that there were things that were not keyed in. There were the Stevens investigation, the review by Mr. Justice Cory and the de Silva review of the investigation into the murder of Pat Finucane by the UDA and in each of the three processes more material was uncovered that it had been claimed did not exist. It is time for the files to be opened and the information aid bare...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...he thought the body was being flown into Dublin Airport but the plane was diverted to Shannon Airport and Frank's body was taken away from his family. The programme tells the personal story behind the event. I commend Pat Kenny on the way he interviewed George Stagg about the story for Newstalk yesterday morning. The story of what happened to Frank needs to be told and put in context....

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I want to express my solidarity with and send my best wishes to the family of Pat Finucane who today launched a bid in the UK Supreme Court in London to hold a public inquiry into his murder. The need for an inquiry was agreed at Weston Park in 2001, but the need for truth and disclosure is widely accepted and needs all sides to be supportive of these efforts. Some of the documentation from...

Seanad: European Court Decision: Motion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...s mistreatment as a cause of death. The groundbreaking documentary "The Torture Files" aired on RTÉ 1 in 2014 and focused attention on this case once again. I commend the RTÉ investigations unit and the Pat Finucane Centre on spending many months trawling through documents at the British National Archives in Kew. They discovered that, as early as March 1971, RUC officers were...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...the Department in May and December 2015, but payment is still awaited. I raised this issue in January. It is not acceptable that we are being told at this late stage that the computer is not compatible with the task it needs to perform. I rise to discuss a matter of which every Senator is aware. Everyone will be disappointed for the family of Pat Finucane following the decision of the...

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...or a voice and I had to make my own way, which I did. I go abroad quite a lot. I go to England and America and I hear the same story over and over again. People want to have a say. They do not want to be patted on the back or told that people care about the diaspora. Not everybody wants to have a say but there are many who do. I come from a family of nine and my brother who spent...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...us its decisions cannot be reversed in the same way it told us medical cards could not be given to children with disabilities. That claim was proved wrong in the Dáil yesterday evening. We can no longer pat ourselves on the back or run around like self-licking lollipops as we praise ourselves for what we are doing when people are dying prematurely because they cannot afford basic...