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Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. As he knows, Sinn Féin supports legislative reform in higher education to clarify the role of the HEA, to increase inclusion and access and to ensure proper governance and accountability. I acknowledge that the Minister and his Department have taken on board a number of recommendations - some, but not all - that Sinn Féin put forward during pre-legislative...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to talk about the lack of broadband in Mayo. As a previous speaker said, people in Mayo are taxpayers as well. They have been promised broadband and they are not getting it and they look at screens telling them it will happen in 2025 or 2026. Not one home has been connected yet. We have asked for details about the contract, such as whether there will be penalties for targets not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is the Tánaiste aware that medical card dental services have completely collapsed in Mayo? We contacted each of the 30 dentists in the county listed by the HSE on its website. Of all the many dental practices throughout the county, only one said it was currently treating medical card patients and taking on new patients, and even then it was only doing so for specific treatments. In a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps a student (details supplied) can take to obtain a Covid-19 certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3913/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I find this very interesting. I welcome the opportunity to discuss this issue. I am my party's spokesperson on higher education so I have an interest in that area but, if we do not get things right at first and second level, we are failing. Some of these figures are quite astounding with regard to the lack of progress. Some progress has been made, however. Today is an opportunity to look...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Obviously, we are supporting the Bill, which is welcome and long overdue. The register that this Bill establishes was originally proposed in the 1970s. If that had actually happened in the 1970s or the 1980s and was not on a voluntary basis, I wonder if it would have saved heartache, agony and stress endured by the homeowners in Mayo, Donegal, Clare and some other counties who have been...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (26 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Education will next meet. [2243/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (26 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from Northern Ireland who are enrolled in further education in Ireland in each year that data is available in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3736/22]

Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not too late for the Minister to do the right thing. Over the past two years, more than 6,000 people have died with Covid in the State and 9,159 on the island. In excess of 1 million have contracted the virus. Millions more have been close contacts. Leaving certificate students and their families are not immune. They are not different. They are part of society and what society had...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Healthcare capacity has to be included in the national risk assessment along with issues of public health. It is beyond question that, when a public health emergency hits, it is already too late. I commend those who work on the front line in that system. Prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, we had the longest waiting lists in the EU. We had a series of some of the longest and strictest...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national risk assessment published by his Department. [3336/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2019 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Chairman and the Minister of State. I am pleased to be discussing the technological universities again, as we have done so many times before. The Minister of State knows I have a particular interest in the Atlantic Technological University and I think it is a great name for it. As he is aware, it is also important, that we have a proper sustainable funding model and we will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2019 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On public private partnerships, there is concern that services around the technological universities will not be retained in public ownership. In other words, they will be in the ownership of the public private partnership. I would like to see greater evaluation of that to ensure that we are delivering value for money, but also that we are keeping higher education as a public good, which I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2019 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My question in regard to St. Angela's College arises from the press release from the Minister, Deputy Harris, on 23 November in which he stated that there are a number of issues to be resolved by the respective higher education institutes in terms of completing all of the due diligence processes and centrally by the Government in terms of the delivery of the legislation to provide for legal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for being here again this morning. What lessons have been learned from the hybrid model of last year? What were the positives and negatives of the model and have the lessons from the hybrid model fed into the work on reforming the leaving certificate? That is my first question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Where you have a hybrid model in one year and examinations only in another year, what percentage of students - we referred to grade inflation in terms of college places - are left over from the previous year? Does Mr. Tattan understand what I am saying? I mean in terms of college places.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think that it is quite a high number. I seem to have 46% in my head from previous years. The challenge is creating equality from one year to the next for access to third level. In some ways, improving the curriculum and the method of assessment is the easier task related to reform of the leaving certificate. The harder challenge is to produce a more equal outcome for the leaving...