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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (18 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1683. To ask the Minister for Health when the primary care centre project in Ballyhaunis was first approved; when the tendering process was opened and concluded; when the design phase was completed; when did construction initially commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17730/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1730. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement the European Commission recommendation that member states recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease if contracted by healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17994/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (18 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1753. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all primary care centres open, under construction and planned; the number of centres that are publicly owned, privately leased, and public private partnerships, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18157/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (18 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on capital works on the Charlestown ETB building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16517/23]

Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am deeply grateful I am to the Women of Honour, whom I welcome to the Public Gallery, and to all the women who came forward to give first-hand accounts of their experiences, both members and former members. I too want to recognise Katie Hannon. We should not be in a position where we have to wait for RTÉ to do a "Prime Time Investigates" programme before we react to some of this...

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Sheep farming is an important driver of economic activity in many parts of rural Ireland, generating €476 million in exports alone in 2022 from 47,123 farms involved in sheep farming, especially in areas that were otherwise starved of inward investment. Mayo is a mountainous county where agriculture plays a vital role in underpinning the rural economy. In Mayo more than 30% of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for that update. We eagerly await the HEA recommendations on this matter. I am a bit concerned that we might start reinventing the wheel. The facts are there. Some 500 Irish students are outside the country studying veterinary medicine at the moment. It is important not to go backwards but to go forwards. We need this issue to be addressed as soon as possible. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We also need uniform accreditation across the island. That is important.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the recent recognition by the Minister for Health that Ireland needs to approximately double the number of healthcare professionals it is training, the steps that are being taken to deliver increased provision of healthcare education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15732/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister has partially discussed this issue. My question is related to the link-up between the demands in the health services and higher education, higher educational professionals and the training that is necessary. As a former Minister for Health, the Minister will understand the enormous gaps that exist. Money is being wasted in places such as Achill Island, where, as the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I very much welcome this OECD report and look forward to examining it. It is crucial to our economic growth going forward. The national skills input into that will determine how we shape and create the human workforce as we go forward. We also need to be cognisant of the need to join things up. If we are encouraging lifelong education and upskilling of the workforce, we need to look at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad the focus is on PhD researchers at the moment and that there has been a realisation they are critical not only to our productivity, but to our social and economic growth now and into the future. There were reports last night that Jeffrey Sardina, a member of the national committee of the Postgraduate Workers Organisation, PWO, received documents from Revenue that indicated PhD...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the shift in Government policy in regard to investment in student accommodation. That is what we as a party have wanted for a long time. Will the Minister confirm that at the end of 2019, there were 28,414 student accommodation units registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB? However, at the of 2021 that number was down to 21,681. That was a decline of 7,000 beds....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The most important question is whether there is less or more student accommodation in the system. Sometimes from the way it is presented we give the impression that there is more but really there is less. When we look at the increase in the number of students, we have to recognise the issue that exists because this August and September will be the Minister's third year in the role. I do...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to increase the number of apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15918/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My first question relates to apprenticeships. I ask the Minister to bring us up to date on what is happening in relation to apprenticeships and the step he is taking to increase their number and to address the backlogs in the system.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for his response. In 2016 the Government set a target of 9,000 annual apprenticeship registrations by 2020 but here we are in 2023, and we still have not reached that target. The Government set a new target of 10,000 in 2020. The Minister has said that we are making progress towards that but we have not even reached the old target. Back in 2016 we did not even...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I really welcome that. If one takes the figure of 300, that is the number of apprenticeships the ESB alone does every year. The local authorities have been dragging their feet on this. We need to sit down with them, examine why that is the case and determine what are the blockages. We need to be able to facilitate the local authorities as well as giving them the responsibility for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We could talk about apprenticeships all day.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his strategy for addressing student accommodation ahead of the next academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15919/23]