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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand the role of the Department is to ensure that it is sustainable from a fiscal and expenditure perspective but that is the heart of the issue and it is why the employment framework was introduced in the first place. I welcome the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and I, like many working in the sector, took that as a...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister will understand that the funding per student is down 37% on what it was in 2008. Most early career academics and researchers now go from one precarious contract to another. Some 16% of researchers in the technological sector are on permanent contracts but only 5% of researchers in universities are on full-time contracts. It is important to remember that many of these...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [10081/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Trans-European Transport Network, TEN-T, policy is a gateway that gives specific rail and road transport infrastructure, routes, ports and airports exclusive access to the Connecting Europe Facility, CEF, fund. It also represents the individual member states' priority rail and road transport corridors, ports and airports. The latest 2021 CEF transport call under the 2013 TEN-T map is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: TEN-T funding.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What about the western rail corridor?

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As I speak today I am mindful that it is Ash Wednesday, a day of repentance when Christians confess their sins and profess their devotion to God. I do not want to make this religious but I am acutely aware of the suffering that the families of the victims of those who have been buried have endured over the decades and that they still endure. The Minister acknowledged that and he understands...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider increased investment in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General to ensure the high quality audit of public funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11404/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider extending the full rate rather than a pro rata rate for the once-off public holiday to be held on 18 March 2022 for workers who work two 12-hour shifts at the weekend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11568/22]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: The submissions of both THEA and the IUA reference the National Training Fund. This is a very important issue. The programme for Government has committed to utilising the National Training Fund surplus. The suspension of EU fiscal rules due to Covid also provided a window of opportunity to do this. This has not happened so far. The reserve was as high as €817 million a year ago...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Obviously, the fund is losing value all the time. If it was invested, it would be multiplying. It just does not make economic sense that this is not being done.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Professor Hegarty and I will agree to disagree. I passionately believe that higher education and further education is a public good. I have put my cards on the table. That is why I believe that in order to have the type of model we require, we need to invest in core funding in the way it is done very successfully in other countries. If I have time, I will ask-----

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is grand.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I refer to the international partnerships. I very much agree in the context of the exchange of learning and all that can be done there, but I refer to the possibilities for all-island partnerships as well and their development. The lack of funding is a significant impediment to such partnerships. What can we do across the island in that regard? I am thinking particularly in terms of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On behalf of Sinn Féin, I wish the outgoing Leader of the Labour Party, Deputy Kelly, well following his announcement last night that he has resigned his role. I extend my best regards to him and his family. I welcome Ms Linda Ervine, who will be in the Seanad today to speak on Seachtain na Gaeilge. We extend her a fáilte mór from this House and acknowledge the great work...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to be updated on those discussions. There has to be an immediate response, or one that is as immediate as possible. There are growing conversations in many EU countries about ending imports of Russian oil and gas into the future. Has the Government considered what the State can do to secure its energy supply if this comes to pass? We were told all the time that the Corrib gas...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This morning the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, SCSI, launched a report on the construction costs of rebuilding the homes affected by pyrite and mica. I thank it for its work and acknowledge that it did so free of charge as a public service. I welcome the scrapping of the nonsense of the sliding scale, but there are many issues of concern outside the terms of reference. The...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek to have the Western Rail Corridor included in the TEN-T programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11992/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the all-Ireland strategic rail review will provide the basis for the inclusion of the north of Ireland within the TEN-T programme as is the case with other territories outside of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11993/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will Dr. Trant indicate how many apprenticeship places are available through local authorities across the State?