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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of apprentices that are allocated a training place that is at an education institute that is not the closest training location to where they live; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26790/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average distance travelled by apprentices to attend off-the-job training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26791/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (25 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 19 May 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of beds that are being delivered and underway per institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26810/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an apprentice who is employed by a company registered in the State can work cross-border with the same company in the North of Ireland without repercussions in terms of their apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25839/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer of providing equal funding per student to both traditional and technological universities in order to end the situation of a 60:40 split in core funding through an increased allocation to the technological sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25874/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Visas (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with the Minister for Justice in relation to the situation in which language students on stamp 2 visas are being forced to leave the State at the end of May 2022 after two years even if they have to return for a post-graduate course in September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26053/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 615 of 10 May 2022, if he will outline which section of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2022 as amended that will further the provision of Technical University borrowing and or deliver student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26055/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, recipients in the academic year 2021-2022; and the total number of full-time students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26056/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details on plans to provide summer off-site training to address the backlog of 8,208 apprentices that each education institute will provide summer provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26057/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pay and conditions of personal assistants working in further education colleges; the starting salary for personal assistants; if they are on full-time, permanent contracts; if they need to access social welfare during the holidays; the steps that he is taking to improve the pay and conditions of personal assistants who work in further...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for being here and for their opening statements. This is a good opportunity for the committee to talk to the apprentices so I will focus my first questions on that area. Mr. McSherry is a bricklayer apprentice. Is he finished his apprenticeship?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How long will the apprenticeship have taken from start to finish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is a real challenge for us. Obviously, Mr. McSherry did not envisage that when he started out and it would have impacted on his earnings. Did that mean he went nearly a year on reduced wages?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I can imagine it would be. I am delighted Mr. McSherry chose that particular apprenticeship because we have not had big numbers of new apprentice bricklayers entering the system. There were 473 brickie apprentices in the register in 2006 and only 56 in 2020. We often get the overall figures but we need to dig a bit deeper to be able to see what is going on. Why does Mr. McSherry think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there anything that we could do to attract more people to work as bricklayers? It is a huge problem for us as a country or economy. There are all these projections for building houses but if we have no people to build them we will be in dire straits. Are there things we could do to make it easier for apprentices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know I am putting Mr. McSherry on the spot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Thinking of the last six to 12 months with inflation, the cost of living, accommodation and the extra expenses, have the witnesses noticed a difference in participation in apprenticeships? Is it getting more difficult having to put fuel in the van and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Have the others experienced difficulties with the cost of living and the costs associated with doing the apprenticeship? Let us take the fees for the off-the-job training or accommodation, for example. Are their apprenticeships near where they live or do they have to travel or get accommodation?