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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome all of the measures. Some effort has been made to tackle substitution by deploying student teachers, albeit that we have been calling for this for some time. However, it is only part of the solution. Much more can be done, and every school must have access to a substitution panel. This is an emergency, and we need all hands on deck. Student teachers alone will not solve this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am asking this question on behalf of my party colleague, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, who has been unavoidably detained tonight. We have known for some time now that Covid-19 is an airborne virus and that ventilation, including air filtration, has a key role to play in protecting students and staff in our schools. Sinn Féin has been calling for adequate ventilation measures for the guts...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We all want schools to be open and functioning well but we cannot pretend Covid-19 is not in our schools. Too often the Department seems to minimise these issues. According to a principal in Mayo, 15% of one school's students are at home with Covid-19. If education remaining open is as important as we say it is, surely we should be throwing the kitchen sink at it. While I acknowledge the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Principals are already at the end of their tether and now it seems responsibility for contact tracing will fall to them and to parents. I urge the Minister to ask the HSE to ensure public health teams have a significant role in contact tracing in our schools. We need school-specific contact tracing. Many school staff are concerned by the details of the antigen testing plan. They are...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We would not be here this evening if the Minister had used the findings of the OAK consultation with the survivors of the mother and baby homes. Nobody wants to be here, at least of all the people who are watching in tonight. The survivors do not want to be watching this. I send them our solidarity. I thank all of those who have engaged with Deputies across the House and told us their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will approve the intake numbers into both the bachelor of education and professional master of education for the next academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57227/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to stop the spread of Covid-19 in schools and to protect staff, students and the wider community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57226/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rail-based proposals included in the published draft as part of the consultation process on Connecting Ireland being run by the NTA in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56980/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who completed an apprenticeship and became fully qualified tradespersons in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56974/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a borrowing framework for the technological universities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56975/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider continuing to extend the SUSI maintenance grant to persons being transferred from the jobseeker's transition payment to the back to education allowance as a result their child turning 14 years of age and instead continue to provide a maintenance grant even though typically the back to education allowance would not be a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of parents who lose the SUSI maintenance grant as a result of being transferred from the jobseeker's transition payment to the back to education allowance due to their child turning 14 years of age; if his Department has conducted research into the effect this has or will have on the completion rate of education courses; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Reform (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will bring forward an updated Higher Education System Performance Framework given the current framework was only intended to continue until the end of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56979/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 586. To ask the Minister for Health the total allocation and expenditure of the Health Research Board since 2006, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56978/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: An Ghaeilge agus Oideachas lán-Ghaeilge: Plé (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Tá cúpla ceist agam as Béarla. I thank the witnesses for their contributions and submissions. All of the answers are covered there. It seems to me the problem is the implementation of those suggestions and ideas. I apologise to Ms Ní Chéilleachair but I have to go back to the points that she and Mr. Ó Beaglaoich raised. They say there has been recent...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (18 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that are being taken to rectify some of the impact the disruption to the operation of the foreign birth register during Covid-19 has had on applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56529/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Education Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of students in receipt of the back to education allowance in each year since 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56617/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Education Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of the approved third-level institutions for the back to education allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56618/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (18 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recently concluded agreement to include Israel in Horizon Europe until 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56530/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (18 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of enrolments and graduates from paramedic courses in each year since 2011, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56614/21]