Results 5,061-5,080 of 7,061 for speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am really pleased to hear the Minister of State saying that funding will not be an issue with regard to capital expenditure on buildings because, as he will know himself, some of the buildings in which training and courses are delivered desperately need some capital funding, although others are excellent. I welcome that. I bring to the Minister of State's attention the town of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the CAWT representatives for the presentation and for all the good work they are doing. My first question is, when will the programme be approved by the EU Commissioner? When are they expecting that and how time-sensitive is it? Are there risks if it is not approved sooner rather than later? How successful was the recent health and well-being programme, which set out to train the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is great. How important does CAWT think cross-Border enrolment is for students? We are doing a project on that at the moment and examining training and education opportunities across the island so we have a shared approach to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this Bill because it will enable the CCPC to operate more effectively. Indeed, it should provide the long-awaited powers necessary to tackle a wide range of white-collar crimes. As somebody who sat on the finance committee and who was involved in the scrutiny of insurance prices, what was happening in that market, the protection of raw data and how things were used against the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Not at all.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We do not have control of those finances.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister knows we do not control those finances.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister should speak to British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We will see what is delivered.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will bring forward a plan to reduce student fees for third level students; if this will be in place for the next academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6450/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are facing a crisis in the cost of living and students and families have to pay the highest fees in the EU. As a means of taking the pressure off students and their parents, will the Minister and the Department reduce fees as part of a sustainable funding model for third level education? I am also conscious of the fact that they need help now so I again call on the Minister to increase...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We have to be conscious of families who are really struggling at this stage, and of students who, because they cannot get accommodation even at a very high price, are driving long distances and of the extra cost that is putting on students. In addition, it is time for a new accommodation strategy because the cost of accommodation is prohibiting students from attending and participating in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister should not worry. He should concentrate of the students down here-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----where he has a mandate.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The difference between Sinn Féin and this Government is that we listen to students and to what they want. The Minister knows that the only reason the fees in the North are not £9,250 as they are in England is that Sinn Féin in is government in the North as well. The Minister twisting his play of words is not fooling anybody.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not; it is a truthful answer. I want fees here to be reduced. I do not want the highest fees in the EU; that is not a label we want in this State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We must work together to make sure they are reduced. The Minister said that some people do not pay fees. Yes, many do not. However, we see the people who are working day and night, the people who are excluded, locked out and not entitled to anything because they are just above the thresholds. We must help those students. We must give those students and their families the opportunities...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. On the phases, in September, we had 1,000 in phase 6 and 2,000 in phase 4, but the vast majority - 7,000 - were in phase 2 at that time. In one sense, when the Minister of State gives the figures and says that phases 4 and 6 will be cleared by April, I obviously welcome that, but the vast majority are in phase 2. We need to be careful of that. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are 500-odd fewer apprentices who became qualified tradespeople in 2021 than in 2020, despite the reopening in September. I want to know when the waiting lists will be cleared and the apprentices will be able to complete the training in the allocated four years, like every other student? The people with the skills we need to meet housing and retrofit targets need to be valued and the...