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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average cost to the Exchequer for each craft apprentice and consortia-led apprentice each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18867/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the anticipated number of fully qualified tradespeople to have completed apprenticeships in 2022; the number in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18868/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the set that his Department is taking to address low registration levels in certain construction-related trades; the apprenticeships that are being targeted in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18869/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners accepting new medical card patients in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18521/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 216. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided in relation to the capital proposal from Ballina District Hospital to the HSE in relation to additional beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18523/22]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 4: In page 13, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “ “relevant body” means a designated institution of higher education referred to in any of subparagraphs (i)to (v)of section 53(1)(a);”. I will press the amendment.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Amendment No. 6 seeks to insert the definition of "trade union" as stated in the other amendment. The Government has tabled a number of amendments that reference trade unions without including a specific definition, therefore we wanted to provide one.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Likewise, I will work with the Minister.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 6: In page 13, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “ “trade union” means a trade union which is the holder of a negotiation licence under Part II of the Trade Union Act 1941.”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: For those reasons, I think we need to go ahead with that amendment. We are all on the same page. It is about making it as strong as we possibly can and getting to the destination we want to get to.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I support the three amendments because we need greater levels of transparency on the private revenue. It is important to ensure that there is no compromise or negative impact on academic independence.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to speak to amendments Nos. 12, 21 and 28. We oppose the term "value for money" because institutional autonomy means making choices on what does or does not constitute value. For the HEA to be tasked with securing and evidencing value for money is not practically achievable or appropriate. Transparency is not negotiable but dictating what represents value for money could potentially...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No. I will be moving my amendments.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 13: In page 15, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(d) to protect and enhance the public nature of the higher education system;”. The principle behind this amendment is the most important point we would like to see reflected in the Bill. Nowhere in the Bill makes any reference to the public nature of our higher education system. The...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I hear what the Minister is saying. I agree with him in respect of institutes being able to be designated. I still have a fear, however, that we have not underpinned the Bill with our intention to have a public education system at third level and, for that reason, I will be pressing the amendment.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 14: In page 15, line 33, after “education” to insert the following: “, including for those who wish to pursue study and research opportunities in the medium of Irish as the national language”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 15: In page 15, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(e) to ensure good quality working conditions for academic and non-academic staff in designated institutions of higher education;”. This amendment would ensure good-quality working conditions for academic and non-academic staff in designated institutions of higher education....

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is important that this provision be in this Bill and, therefore, I am pressing the amendment.