Results 4,421-4,440 of 7,061 for speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the most recent data that his Department has on the breakdown between purpose-built student accommodation delivered in the private market and on campus since 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30623/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 25 May 2022, the average cost of the 970 beds added; the total amount allocated for non-European Union international students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30624/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the number of personal assistants employed in the further education and training system; the number of full-time equivalent personal assistants, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30625/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of personal assistants employed in the further education and training system; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of full-time equivalent personal assistants employed by ETB, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30626/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the justification for the working conditions of personal assistants in the further education and training system including no pay scale, pension and being forced to sign on in the summer; if he will consider providing personal assistants with similar employment terms provided to SNAs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30627/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer of providing personal assistants in the further education and training system with the same employment conditions as SNAs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30628/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of full-time PhD students in each higher education institution; the estimated number in 2022-2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30632/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of PhD stipends to higher education institutions; the average value of a PhD stipend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30633/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for a month processing times for fully complete English language long-stay study visas applications in Ankara in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30162/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1473. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the average waiting times for an x-ray in St. Joseph's District Hospital, Ballina, currently; the average waiting time over the last number of years; if there has been any increase in waiting times recently; if he will provide the details of the cause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29351/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered extending the €1,000 incentive to grow silage to small dairy farmers in designated disadvantaged areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30160/22]

Higher Education Investment and Costs: Statements (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for his statement and I welcome this opportunity to debate higher education again. I was very encouraged earlier by the announcement of ring-fenced funding for autistic students. I know the Minister agrees that it should have been done years ago. It is also important to measure and track outcomes so we can get real value for money and that the money can make a real...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to ask about the situation on valproate. I understand it is intended to bring a memorandum to Government within the next few weeks to seek an approval into the non-statutory inquiry that is required there. It is important that the terms of reference are agreed by the families who have fought for decades to get the truth of who knew what, when they knew it and why nobody did anything...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Prices (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland's electricity market is characterised by very limited interconnection, with gas having a strong influence on the price of electricity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28483/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Prices (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Ireland's electricity market have limited interconnection and does gas play a strong role in setting the price of electricity? I ask this question because those elements were the justification for an exemption given to Spain and Portugal from the EU rules in this regard. Now that the EU has extended that exemption to all member states, will the Department consider actions to stop gas...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Prices (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am still concerned by any argument that sees a benefit in high gas prices. Yes, what the Minister outlined will make it profitable to invest in renewables and to attract more companies to invest in renewable projects. However, it does not fit in with a just transition. Is it another market-led approach that will leave ordinary people shouldering the heaviest burden? People cannot see...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Prices (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I accept there are issues with the approach taken by Spain and Portugal and that other approaches have been put forward, such as windfall taxes. However, the core issue remains the same, namely, that gas cannot be allowed to set the price for all electricity if, as the Taoiseach said on Tuesday, we are entering into a new era of high energy prices. I agree we need to go from 40% to 80%...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 64. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the support that are available to persons who have opened their homes to refugees from Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21399/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the detail regarding the implementation of the Iberian exception will be published; if he considered the applicability of this approach in the Irish context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28482/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost to the Exchequer of abolishing apprenticeship registration fees broken down by consortia-led and craft; the average cost per apprentices broken down by craft and consortia-led apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28789/22]