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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 59. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is engaged in discussions to agree revised principles for a new higher education staffing agreement to update the current employment control framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11405/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for thinking about County Mayo.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank him for his positive action. That is what I like. Is the Minister engaged in discussions to agree revised principles for a new higher education staffing agreement to update the employment control framework? I have raised this issue a number of times since the Government was formed. The sector and its workforce have struggled under the employment control framework since 2010....

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Mayo University Hospital waiting list increased by 162% from July 2015 to July 2021. It takes 712 days for people to get general surgery there. There are severe regional imbalances to be addressed. I have listened to what the Minister has said and one of those was about delivering care close to home. I ask the Minister to talk to the workers and managers who have been appointed to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider increased investment in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General to ensure the high quality audit of public funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11404/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider extending the full rate rather than a pro rata rate for the once-off public holiday to be held on 18 March 2022 for workers who work two 12-hour shifts at the weekend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11568/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will Dr. Trant indicate how many apprenticeship places are available through local authorities across the State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want the local authority figures because local authorities present opportunities for craft apprenticeships in particular. Every time I ask this question of a local authority, I do not get an answer. We need to examine the baseline in this regard because local authorities have a responsibility to not just talk the talk, but also walk the walk. Having skilled staff in their own areas is in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a question for SOLAS. Mr. Brownlee stated that further education offers people learning pathways to take them as far as they want to go. We need to place greater emphasis and attention on the work being done in this regard and on the potential of further education. I am not convinced that the pathways are adequately in place, though. I always refer to how fewer than 5% of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am out of time, but I wish to ask a question. How important is it that we make the pathways a key component of an agreed future funding model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would be useful to the committee to have them as well. We look forward to visiting all of the higher education institutes. It is only by going – I went to Ballyfermot – that we can get a real feel for the work being done there in changing people's lives even more so than is the case at higher education level. I thank Mr. Brownlee. I have other questions, but perhaps...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Dr. Trant know how many craft apprenticeships were completed last year or even in the past 12 months to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Good. I would not like to see the money following the private institutions when public institutions are starved of funding, especially capital funding. Thanks for that. On the accommodation question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to look at it now. We talk about access but what if there is no affordable accommodation for students to be able to live? If we look at a county such as Mayo, for somebody living in Belmullet or Blacksod it is more than an hour to travel to the university each day and it is not feasible. Someone would need student accommodation beside or near the Mayo campus. We do not want people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Maybe that is one of the research projects that can be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does the HEA have the resources to support them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would be great if Dr. Trant could supply that. Private colleges that provide apprenticeship training is a recent development. Where does Dr. Trant see that in the context of the future decentralisation of the craft model for apprenticeships? Will she speak to the role of private colleges in that? I will also ask Mr. Conlon about accommodation. Probably the biggest barrier to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is what I am saying.