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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Community Foundation for Ireland (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I am very familiar with the work of the Community Foundation for Ireland and we have done some projects in Mayo with it, as well as some cross-Border projects. It has been a while now. Working in community development, sometimes with the application for funding there is much bureaucracy but I have always found the Community Foundation for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Community Foundation for Ireland (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. I thank the witnesses.

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I acknowledge and thank People Before Profit for bringing forward this important motion. Like my colleagues, I am gravely concerned by the impact of the rising cost of energy. Fuel poverty has been talked about for years and, sadly, it is becoming more and more common. At the end of 2020, Ireland had the fourth highest electricity prices in the EU and the seventh highest gas prices....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yesterday was a day for bold, transformative decisions. We in the west waited with anticipation for our share of the €650 billion national development plan but there were no individual projects. The Minister for Foreign Affairs mentioned earlier individual projects had been named. County Mayo was not mentioned anywhere in the national development plan. There was no mention of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of the members of the Student Grants Appeals Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47625/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for reducing the number of members of the Student Grants Appeals Board from 11 to seven; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47626/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the years for which annual reports were prepared by the Student Grants Appeals Board for the relevant Department since its formation in 2011; the specific years in which the relevant Department requested an annual report from the Student Grant Appeals Board since its formation in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47627/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in accordance with the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016, an oversight agreement has been put in place between his Department and the Student Grants Appeals Board; if not, if any exemption has been sought from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47628/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he or another Minister or Minister of State from the Department of Education last met with the Student Grants Appeals Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47629/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses. I listened intently last week and this to the submissions. As I see it, this is probably the biggest change management project we have undergone for decades. I note the differences in approach, particularly where Mr. Gillespie said we need evolution rather than revolution, while Ms Neville said we need radical change. I come down on Ms Neville's side because I think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, and it must be targeted to the right place and prioritised. We cannot allow what is happening with career guidance to continue. People are not fulfilling their potential because they do not have the right career guidance. We can have all the apprenticeship programmes we want, along with all the other alternatives, but it will not matter if there is appropriate career guidance...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of and position on the turnaround times for and backlog of passport applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47172/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (30 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 18. 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, such as cases in which the delay to completing the registration of a person could impact the rights of their children to claim citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider raising the income threshold for fuel allowance for persons with disabilities to reflect the increased cost of living for persons with a disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46854/21]

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with Deputy Gould. I support what my colleague, Deputy Mac Lochlainn, said about 100% redress and the guarantee needed for households who opt for the outer layer option. I commend all the people who gathered to demonstrate in Ballina. I hope these people will get their lives back very soon. This plan will not deliver housing for all. Apart from the many weaknesses...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----in the short term. This is for all the students who are in hostels, in hotel rooms or who are sleeping on floors as we speak. The Government's housing plan states that universities have developed a significant amount of student accommodation in recent years, another statement that is divorced from reality and shows how out of touch is the Government. Since 2017, the year the student...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met; and when it will next meet. [44854/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to bring to the Taoiseach's attention the Rebuilding Ireland home loan and the anomaly in the scheme for people who have been divorced or separated or who are with long-term partners. They need to be considered in any reform. Under the current Rebuilding Ireland home loan there are technical exemptions from the first-time buyer clause for people have gone through a separation....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [43828/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [45152/21]