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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Postal Services (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister of State's response is really disappointing. This is going to be fought by all public representatives across the board. It completely ignores people in rural Ireland and rural Irish towns. This is the wrong thing to do. The Government is copping out by saying that An Post is a separate commercial entity. It is being funded by the Government. There has to be an influence...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Postal Services (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue this evening. Absolutely no disrespect to him but I had hoped the relevant Minister, Deputy Patrick O’Donovan, would be here to answer. My aim is to bring to the Minister’s attention the unworkable proposals being put forward by An Post in Ballyhaunis and Erris, County Mayo. Neither the proposal to move the sorting...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Aois Vótála a Laghdú go Sé Bliana Déag), 2025: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Reduction of Voting Age to Sixteen Years) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Fáilte to everybody in the Gallery. I am delighted to see them here today. I thank the Social Democrats for tabling the Bill. We remember the Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016. We restored it to the Order Paper in the Seanad in 2021 and it was seconded by Senator Ruane. We are a long time at this; we are too long at it. The Minister of State knows from his contribution...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the employees of a company that has entered receivership (details supplied) can apply for new employment, jobseeker’s allowance, supplementary welfare allowance or any other social welfare payment during the lengthy receivership period without this action having a negative impact on their redundancy entitlements;...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Closures (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Some of that information is useful. I thank the Minister for it. I commend my colleagues Senator Maria McCormack and Councillor Claire Murray who are working in the Laois area and who pulled together all the agencies last week to try to get as much information as possible for people. This is not just a commercial issue; it is about jobs and livelihoods. Every unpaid franchisee and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Closures (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This incident once again highlights the vulnerability of small operators when large logistic firms collapse. We need to examine the environment in which some companies are allowed to operate. Employees and those who are dependent on them, like subcontractors, need to be notified about what is happening at a very early stage. Earlier, the Minister referred to the fact that we need better...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Closures (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports his Department is providing to companies impacted by the receivership announcement of a company (details supplied) to prevent further closures and job losses; the steps his Department is taking to ensure the packages held by the company are delivered to their owners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62267/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Closures (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to speak further about Fastway because there is so much to be spoken about. The Minister knows that Fastway is built on a network of local franchisees and subcontractors, many of whom have been the backbone of parcel delivery in rural and regional Ireland. These are small family-run operations which have invested heavily, some of them up to €70,000 in recent months, in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how he is taking account of the views expressed by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment in its scrutiny of the proposed omnibus directive, in particular the committee's concerns that the proposals extend far beyond the simplification of burdensome regulations for small and medium enterprises and could...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to talk to the Minister about the proposed omnibus directive and in particular the enterprise committee's concerns that the proposals extend far beyond simplification of burdensome regulations for small and medium enterprises and that these could weaken the due diligence obligations of larger companies. It is really important that we need to know where we stand on it. Is Ireland...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Everybody agrees on what needs to be done for small and medium businesses in particular, and for any other businesses, in addressing the administrative burden, the duplication and a lot of the nonsense around requirements that are made on businesses. Deputy Charles Ward, my Donegal colleague, is here and when I hear about deregulation, I am mindful of what the defective concrete block...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I do not think the two things are contradictory in the sense of what we need to do in this space. Obviously, we need to do everything. Small and medium businesses are really struggling right now but we do not need to sacrifice, for example, how we are going to meet our emissions targets or how we are going to ensure that employees' and workers' rights are protected within this space....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Closures (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and I know the discussions we are having obviously overlap with the Minister for Social Protection. In these situations, it is very important that there is tight communication between both Departments to put in emergency services. The Minister said people can go to their Intreo offices, but in these situations it is important that dedicated are personnel available to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Closures (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would be very useful if the Minister and the Minister for Social Protection drew up a definitive list of actions and supports. I will work with them in doing that, so that if this situation happens again, we will have something - almost a pack - to present to workers showing them the do's and don'ts of what they are allowed to do, so people will have clarity around that. Will the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Closures (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the protections his Department will install for workers to prevent the situation that occurred at a company (details supplied) being replicated at other companies, whereby workers are left without any form of income for prolonged periods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62594/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Closures (13 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Last month, one of Ireland's largest delivery companies went into receivership, leaving 300 direct employees' jobs at risk and impacting a further 600-plus jobs, including subcontractors, franchisees and seasonal workers. These workers have been left in limbo and are still technically employed by Fastway but no longer getting paid. What protections will the Department install for workers to...

Cost of Motoring: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank my colleague, Deputy Daly, for bringing this motion to the House. I can hardly believe what the Minister of State read out because, basically, the thread running through it is that there is no problem, and he is not going to do anything to fix it-----

Cost of Motoring: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----because there is no problem in the first instance. Right through it, it goes on about how much better off people are. I can tell the Minister of State that people in County Mayo certainly do not feel better off. Despite the Government's lack of investment in public transport, however, it seems completely unaware that many people have no choice but to drive. In rural areas and in my...

Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do I have three and a half minutes?