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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to bring forward a hydrogen strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10348/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (24 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to bring forward new wind energy guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10349/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (24 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the controls or checks that are in place to ensure dentists in the dental treatment services scheme are accepting new medical card patients; the number of dentists who are accepting new medical card patients in each county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10652/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and the papers they submitted beforehand. They were interesting. Often when we talk in the Oireachtas about the bill of rights, it is an abstract thing but in the CAJ submission, they made it real. I ask them to tease it out a bit more in order that people realise what is denied to people because the bill of rights is not implemented. How...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why would a political party deny people their rights? I cannot fathom it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there a toleration from both Governments, as guarantors of the Good Friday Agreement, of the bill of rights part of that agreement not being implemented? What is available to them? Somebody has to make it happen at some stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is the same difference. What can the committee and the Government do to progress matters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Holder's suggestion that the committee writes regarding the bill of rights explicitly would be a good thing. Is the Chairman in agreement with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank all of our guests for their submissions. I fully agree this is a critical conversation. Indeed the Minister himself has said the raison d’êtrefor the setting up of the new Department is to get the funding model right. This is an opportunity for us to do that. I am very disappointed that despite the Minister promising month after month to have the economic analysis from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On that point, has there been any formal communications from the Minister around what the impact of that might be or around planning for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How do so many other countries manage not to have student fees at all and yet still manage to have a very high standard of third level education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It can be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It can be done in nations and member states which we consider to be a great deal less wealthy than this country, which it is important to state.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: May I ask about the impact of the funding situation as it is and the debt being €1 billion across the board? What impact does that have on the development of on-campus accommodation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand that, but what is stopping that? It has been agreed across the board that we will enable borrowing for the technological universities. Why is it not happening right now?

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Mayo University Hospital waiting list increased by 162% from July 2015 to July 2021. It takes 712 days for people to get general surgery there. There are severe regional imbalances to be addressed. I have listened to what the Minister has said and one of those was about delivering care close to home. I ask the Minister to talk to the workers and managers who have been appointed to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 59. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is engaged in discussions to agree revised principles for a new higher education staffing agreement to update the current employment control framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11405/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for thinking about County Mayo.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank him for his positive action. That is what I like. Is the Minister engaged in discussions to agree revised principles for a new higher education staffing agreement to update the employment control framework? I have raised this issue a number of times since the Government was formed. The sector and its workforce have struggled under the employment control framework since 2010....