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Paediatric Spinal Surgery Waiting Lists: Statements (19 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Let me make it clear: we have only reached this point of establishing a statutory inquiry into the failures in paediatric spinal care in Ireland solely due to the brave families and advocates who have forced the Government to act. I acknowledge that the Minister has listened to the families and they are taking it in good faith that she will do what they are asking her to do. It should...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (19 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am trying to avoid reinventing the wheel.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (19 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (19 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I commend the work of Dublin City University, Aberdeen University and University College Dublin on the constitutional deliberations from grassroots that is being done by Dr. Shelley Deane, Professor Joanne McEvoy and Professor Jennifer Todd. I raise this because this work has been done with focus groups in Mayo, Bellaghy, Longford, Cookstown and Monaghan. The shared island unit, which is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is not Irish Water

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is a group scheme.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Thank you.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The EU drinking water regulations came into effect in Irish law in March 2023.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The EU drinking water regulations. I raise it in the context of the ongoing intolerable situation where 500 households in Ballycroy and Inishbiggle, in County Mayo are left without water for days on end. The way to solve this is to allow some flexibility in the multi-annual water programme to enable moneys that have been returned to the Department, or are to be returned to the Department,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on water quality will next meet. [59735/25]

Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (18 Nov 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We have had months and months of hand-wringing and vague objections to the agreement in its current form. The fact is that the negotiations are finished, the deal is done and the Government must decide whether it is for it or against it. From an enterprise, tourism and employment perspective, I recognise exactly what is at stake here. Irish agriculture underpins tens of thousands of rural...

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...