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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1025. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the pandemic bonus to front-line workers at Cancer Care West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14751/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their extremely valuable contributions. This is probably one of the most valuable sessions we are likely to have, particularly considering their experience working on the Cassells report. My first question to the witnesses is how much damage do they think has been done? It is five years after the Cassells report was published. It has come back from the EU but we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The question is whether we can catch up. Is there an opportunity to catch up or are we too far behind? How long will it take us to catch up, even if recurrent and capital spending are addressed, considering what we have lost out on since 2016?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are we putting higher and further education beyond the reach of people? It was referred to earlier that the system is there to suit the two adults with 2.4 children, a cat and a dog. If one goes outside of that, it creates bureaucratic nightmares for people and huge barriers to entry. How concerned are the witnesses about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The abolition of fees would obviously greatly help that also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is a very important discussion, but we cannot discuss things in isolation by saying "We are all for this and not for that." The witness referred to the fact that getting a radical model of SUSI is quite unlikely but we have all made substantial submissions here. This is why it really concerns me that reference was made to leaving the highest fees in Europe here, that we are okay with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is why I am saying that we need to discuss it in the whole context. We have an opportunity here to get this right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We cannot just say that students will be the cash cows for this. Even in terms of student accommodation, we know what is happening with the high-end student accommodation that is being supplied to bring the money in, because this is filling a gap also. This is why our core funding is so important. I absolutely and 100% take what the witnesses have said about lifelong learning, but rather...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, It is very important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to ask about the research because so little goes to technological universities. However, we now have an opportunity. I am particularly interested in the Atlantic Technological University and the capacity there for competing in research and development. What do we need for that and how do we do it? We must make sure that a bigger share is going to the technological universities and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I agree with every word of that. If we look at the Central Statistics Office, CSO, figures the inequality gap is three times wider than it was ten years ago.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to engage with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to build on the recent agreement and regularise pension rights of school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13529/22]

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Our society is very much lessened by the creeping incitement to hatred that has increased over recent years. While social media is often blamed, and rightly so because it speeds up the spreading of toxic hate speech, it is not the only cause. There are also often headlines in our supposedly reputable press that covertly, and sometimes overtly, incite hatred. We must look across the board...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise the issue of passports again. I know there are plans in place to address the backlog but right now thousands of people are waiting for passports. Many of our constituency offices are turning into passport offices so what immediate measures are being taken? Is there a way extra staff can be seconded into the Passport Office on a temporary basis? There are promises for two and three...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is about someone taking up an apprenticeship and being able to do that programme in the set length of time of four years. I am concerned about the drop-out rate as well. Perhaps that is a figure we can look at another day. We do not want people dropping out of apprenticeships. The State has saved €55 million, mostly from apprenticeship allowances, but has reinvested only...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the waiting lists for craft apprenticeships and the progress in decentralising the craft apprenticeship model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12743/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minister provide an update for the waiting list for the craft apprenticeships and the progress in decentralising the craft apprenticeship model? When I raised this with the Minister last month, there had been a 17% increase in the number of apprentices waiting to access off-the-job training over the preceding two months, with figures back up to just under 10,000. 10...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the Minister's response, in particular the part about working with the local authorities to identify for the higher education institutions possible locations for student accommodation and buildings that can be converted. As late as last week I discussed that with Atlantic Technological University. By the way, I congratulate Dr. Orla Flynn. I think she will do an excellent job...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The reliance on private sector purpose-built student accommodation has failed to deliver any affordable student accommodation. Looking at Mayo, for instance, the problem there is that we are concerned that the lack of accommodation will constrain the possibilities and the opportunities for Atlantic Technological University. There were only 24 properties to rent last week in Mayo, and we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of his plans to increase the supply of affordable on-campus accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12748/22]