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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I agree 100%. I have experience of this myself. The temptation is that if funding is provided for one year, you work with the ones that are already there - the ones that have certain capacity. You do not have time in that year to go for the additional capacity-building engagement, in particular in rural areas. I do not want to create a divide between people but there are extra challenges...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. There is a new clock. I know I am over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is perfect. Thank you, Chair.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rate of capitation for pupils at national school for the current year and for each of the five previous years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37152/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in Mayo with a diagnosis of autism who are currently awaiting a national school place for the current school year; the number of schools in Mayo that currently have autism classes; the number of national schools in Mayo that applied to her Department for funding in the past year to open an autism classroom; the number of...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: While I welcome this Bill and the vital and long-overdue protections it will help to guarantee for citizens of the State, I despair at the snail's pace of progress on reform in mental health services, and even more crucially, on the provision of those services for those people who need them. As I was sitting here, I was imagining if previous Governments had really resourced A Vision for...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Apple tax scandal brings the dreadful decisions taken by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael on behalf of the people into plain sight. First, to facilitate one company making a profit of €104 billion without paying any corporation tax is reckless on a global scale. What kind of a show was Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael running that allowed stateless companies with no tax residence...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I nominate Deputy Aindrias Moynihan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. They are very interesting and timely. There are a lot of commonalities in what they have said. IFAC's submission makes for stark reading. We would be in a deficit of more than €5 billion if it was not for the windfall tax. This is difficult for people to understand. It would suggest there has not been good management of the economy...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Obviously projects such as the western rail corridor, which is shovel ready and not greatly labour intensive, and the rebalancing of the regions are very important. I hate to think what would happen if we did head into recession again with such a deficit of infrastructure in regions. We would tip over completely.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We obviously have to invest in infrastructure, including the infrastructure Dr. McDonnell has talked about. Putting funds away until 2040 is all well and good and it is laudable, but we need to fix the infrastructure to maintain our competitiveness and expand foreign direct investment in order to ensure we are not reliant on three multinational companies. That is hugely important. Dr....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Basically, we are spending a lot of money but we are not spending it in the right places. If we were to go into a budget and again give tax reliefs, such as on inheritance tax, rather than targeting, that would be the wrong thing to do.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a question for the Central Bank that I need to ask. I apologise, I may get back in again, but I have to speak in the Dáil. I need to ask the Central Bank about its decision to renew the agreement to facilitate the sale of Israeli sovereign bonds, and how that reconciles with ISIF, which said it would divest from six Israeli companies active in the occupied territories. It is a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is that a legal requirement in domestic law or in European law?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that, but I am sure that Dr. Kelly understands that people are absolutely horrified that our own Central Bank would facilitate the sale of war bonds when there is a genocide and more than 40,000 people have been slaughtered in the past months. It is appalling, but it is something we will take up with the Governor of the Central Bank when he comes in to the finance committee. I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think my time is up now.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the topic of trains, the all-island rail review and the western rail corridor, we have the opportunity to do what needs to be done there. You only have to look at the map to see the absolute lack of rail services from that area up to Sligo and Donegal, and the Minister, Deputy Chambers, will know this. There is an opportunity now and there is no excuse whatsoever not to do it. Cork...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is it much in excess of €6 billion?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: But the Minister knows what it is now.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is okay but it will be in excess of that, so obviously there is an improved revenue forecast for 2025. We will see that on budget day.