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Fisheries: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: For months, we in Sinn Féin and our colleague Deputy Mac Lochlainn have been calling on the Government to allow statements on fisheries to take place in this House. In that context, I welcome the opportunity today to finally debate the future of an industry that is at breaking point. This is an industry that has been failed by successive Governments and abandoned by Brussels, but we...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise the issue of home help, particularly in County Mayo. There are 265 homes waiting for home help. These are people who are deemed to need home help to be able to stay in their own home, but they do not have it. Home and Community Care Ireland, HCCI, is asking for two things, which I too advocate. It states that waiting lists are too often treated as a HSE operational issue, and not...

Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This gruelling presidential campaign will result in an Irish President representing all of the people living on this island and the global family of Irish citizens. She will endeavour to make us all proud, no matter where we live, yet the electorate is confined to Irish citizens living in the Twenty-six Counties. Even that franchise is restricted because many students will not be able to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I apologise that I had to leave the meeting to speak in the Chamber. I could not agree more with Mr. Jennings. I sat on the finance committee when I was a Senator, in 2016 or 2018, and we went through the issues with the insurance companies week after week. They said they needed this, that and the other to be done, all of which was done. Yet, the prices are the way they are. There must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Hanley certainly will have that support. I expect it to be one of the recommendations in the report we are doing. I am very conscious that we do not just need report after report but there must be some accountability when huge profits are being made at the cost of struggling businesses. If there was a rationale for that, it would be in some way acceptable, but when there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yet, we have areas in which there is no regulation, meaning we end up paying billions of euro, as with the materials that came out of quarries, resulting in the defective block issue.

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: To conclude this debate, I thank everybody who has contributed tonight, including Government Members. It is important. What is obvious from it is, exactly as it says in the motion, is that we need a Green Paper on Irish unity, a White Paper, an Oireachtas joint committee dedicated to reunification and citizens' assemblies. Were we to do that, even in itself, we would make much progress in...

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I acknowledge the work of the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, in this space. I recognise it and his interest in reunification. That is important because what we are discussing is much bigger than party politics. It is reckless and negligent for the Taoiseach not to play the role he needs to play right now in terms of preparation. Everybody agrees that we need to prepare. Everywhere...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for being here today. It is an important session. It is the second session we have looking at an all-island healthcare system. As both witnesses alluded to, what an all-island health service would look like is one of the key questions people want to know. It does not matter what age people are or what community they come from; it is a key question we are trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Professor Heenan is saying that the shared island unit could do this. This is where she would see it as well-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ----so she would agree with our proposal that the shared island unit should be given the extra capacity it needs to develop this, bringing together the two Ministers and the executives under the Ministers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We proposed that in the group would be social care professionals, health economists, senior management, professional organisations, trade unions and relevant experts from both jurisdictions to be able to implement that. We have also proposed the establishment of a single, integrated hospital waiting list system for the island of Ireland. Is that feasible? Should it be done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will ask Professor Matthews as well. Does she think an integrated healthcare list would work? If somebody was waiting in a certain area, you would be able to see if there is a vacancy down here or whatever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If you had a digital health service, I suppose if you had digital healthcare records-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know, but if you had that, it would play a key role as well.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Payments (21 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities that consider carers allowance payments as income and include it in the calculation for social housing rent reviews; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56558/25]

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the opportunity to talk about the National Training Fund because, as the Minister will know, we have long wanted to unlock this fund. It is, as was said, the fund that employers and hard-pressed businesses have paid into. They feel they have got very little back for the payments that have been made and they have been seeing the figures accumulate over the years. I have some...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Civil Defence and the Office of Emergency Planning: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Apologies have been received from Deputy O'Meara. The joint committee is meeting today for a briefing on key issues and priorities for Civil Defence and the Office of Emergency Planning with officials from the Office of Emergency Planning and the Civil Defence branch of the Department of Defence. On behalf of the committee, I welcome: Mr. Kealan McMoreland, principal officer, Ms Aisling...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Civil Defence and the Office of Emergency Planning: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Go raibh maith agaibh. I will open the debate to members and I have two on my list so far. The first is Senator Gerard Craughwell who will be followed by Deputy Brian Stanley and any others could indicate.