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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Assistance Fund (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I welcome any opportunity to ease the financial burden on students. We need to lower the high student fees. Our success story for further education would be that nobody would have to be awake at night worrying about whether he or she could send a child to college. We have to make it affordable and examine people's real-life financial circumstances. We cannot have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount allocated in additional funding in budget 2021 to craft apprenticeships; the number of consortia-led apprenticeships which have been created since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31359/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This question relates to the additional funding that has been allocated to craft apprenticeships and to ask the Minister about the number of consortia-led apprenticeships which have been created since 2016. I very much welcome the extra money that has been put into apprenticeships but I want the information to be accessible to people. I want more encouragement for students and young people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his commitment to work with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to ensure private providers of student accommodation would show decency and refund deposits and rent paid by students who no longer need the accommodation due to changes in their timetable and time on campus; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is a very important question which relates to my first one and asks the Minister what he is doing to ensure that private providers of student accommodation would show decency and refund deposits and rent paid by students who no longer need accommodation due to changes in the timetable and time on the campus? The Union of Students in Ireland has continuously called for emergency...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: A memo was brought to Cabinet to investigate banning evictions, as was done in the previous lockdown. This is sorely needed and should never have been removed. It was needed even before the Covid-19 pandemic. Where is the same urgency when it comes to students? Students are in a unique position in the rental market as they are often asked to pay months in advance. This runs into...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Government must bear some responsibility for this as to the institutions, the late timetables and announcements. Students are struggling immensely, emotionally, financially and socially. The anger and sense of injustice they feel is really palpable. We are asking them to adhere to level 5 restrictions. We need to bring them with us and to show solidarity with them. Level 5 counts as...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide grant aid to support and stimulate the growth of rail freight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31128/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce the current track access charges for rail freight, which are currently the highest in the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31129/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that at the end of August 2020 the French Prime Minister announced that France would waive track access charges for rail freight for the remainder of 2020 and cut them in half for all of 2021, EU regulations permitting; his plans to support the regulation to reduce, waive or defer track...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if financial supports are planned to allow Iarnród Éireann to modernise and expand its rail freight rolling stock fleet as the current limited stock will not allow for business expansion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31131/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the maximum net income a couple with two children can earn and still quality for local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31551/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the numbers of persons receiving invalidity payments by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31538/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details on the training, upskilling and reskilling available for those on invalidity payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31539/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no specific plan was put in place to address the disadvantage faced by the 8,000 students who sat the leaving certificate prior to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30256/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Preparations (15 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 16. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if his Department expects Brexit to have a disproportionate impact on employment and business in rural Ireland; the specific mitigation strategy in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30602/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (15 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 29 September 2020, the way in which she expects schools to be able to continue to pay the wages of secretaries and caretakers, which were increased between 2016 and 2019; if she is withdrawing the financial support that made the increases possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: People need hope and as much certainty as possible during this global pandemic and this budget was an opportunity to provide just that. While the headline figure of €16.75 billion additional expenditure suggests a progressive budget, in reality the inequality gap continues to widen. Covid-19 has laid bare the mismanagement of public services and the misguided policies of successive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action being taken to account for the students who were not directly affected in terms of upgrades and downgrades but were nevertheless squeezed out of places and preferred courses due to the errors in the algorithm; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30255/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that have been left without school transport; the number of applications pending for both concessionary and eligible categories; the actions being taken to address the situation; when students currently excluded will access transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25687/20]