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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Ms Costello for that response. If one of our guests could speak specifically about autistic young people that would be great and I will finish on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have to go to the Chamber, but I would be interested if one of the witnesses could speak about our talented autistic young people and how we can better support their needs and enable them to reach their full potential.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Dr. Smyth.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will engage with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to find a solution to the situation in which parents in education are seeing a substantial loss of income in cases in which they are moved from the jobseeker's transitional payment to the back to education allowance when...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reverse the cuts to the pandemic unemployment payment particularly for workers in sectors that continue to be subject to Covid-19-related restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57969/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (25 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and detail of all completed, ongoing and planned projects under the higher education strategic infrastructure fund; the level of co-financing being provided through the fund; the total cost of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58087/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (25 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the higher education strategic infrastructure fund is exclusively for traditional universities with independent borrowing power therefore excluding technological universities and institutes of technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (25 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total available funding under the higher education strategic infrastructure fund; the criteria used for allocating funding under the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58089/21]

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise the issue of Covid measures in education settings. First, while I welcome the Minister for Education's announcement regarding substitute teachers, we are 16 school days away from Christmas when schools will be breaking up anyway. We need to know the timelines in terms of substitute teachers. Can teachers expect substitute teachers to be available from Monday of next week? We need...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills f he will outline all current the Nearly Zero Energy Building courses such as NZEB the Fundamental Awareness course; the number of persons currently enrolled on such courses; the total that graduated from each course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57752/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current drop-out rate of craft apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57754/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Examinations (24 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to ensure that third-level institutions are prepared and capable of providing alternative assessments for students that do not wish to sit in person exams or for students that are unable to attend due to a requirement to restrict their movement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57755/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (24 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of direct Exchequer funding being provided to deliver the new building to expand Dublin City University capacity in key STEM areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57778/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (24 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of direct Exchequer funding that is being provided to deliver the upgrading of the Tyndall National Institute; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57779/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses employed in each hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57780/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Facilities (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us the importance of having adequate facilities, crucially space, in our schools. In September 2018 a significant monetary commitment was made to ensure all secondary schools would have access to physical education, PE, facilities. This was reiterated in the national development plan last month. However, schools are not seeing any changes, with some waiting...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Facilities (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister but many schools throughout the country have no access to school hall facilities at all. Many talented students want to study leaving certificate PE but cannot access it as their school does not have the facilities. This is not good enough. It creates a real inequality. What will the Minister do to ensure all students who wish to study PE at leaving certificate level...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Facilities (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The challenge is that schools are obviously operating in real time. We must allow enough flexibility for the older schools to be able to have these facilities as well. Otherwise we are creating a real inequality. We must work in real time and in the here and now, in the same way as we do in terms of ventilation, having clean air in schools and all of those things. The problem in general...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister needs to safeguard special educational teaching. Will the Minister reverse the decision to remove banked special education hours - "Yes" or "No"? I go back to my previous question. Does the Minister think there is no need for school-specific contact tracing? What happens with the time delay in having antigen tests delivered to schools? Teachers and parents need more clarity...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The education system is at crisis point and many schools are struggling to stay afloat. School leaders are working up to midnight every night trying to source substitute teachers for their schools for the next day. Many of these positions remain unfilled and many classes end up with no teacher to take them. According to an INTO survey, nearly one third of substitution days were not...