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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want the local authority figures because local authorities present opportunities for craft apprenticeships in particular. Every time I ask this question of a local authority, I do not get an answer. We need to examine the baseline in this regard because local authorities have a responsibility to not just talk the talk, but also walk the walk. Having skilled staff in their own areas is in...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a question for SOLAS. Mr. Brownlee stated that further education offers people learning pathways to take them as far as they want to go. We need to place greater emphasis and attention on the work being done in this regard and on the potential of further education. I am not convinced that the pathways are adequately in place, though. I always refer to how fewer than 5% of the...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am out of time, but I wish to ask a question. How important is it that we make the pathways a key component of an agreed future funding model?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Exactly.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would be useful to the committee to have them as well. We look forward to visiting all of the higher education institutes. It is only by going – I went to Ballyfermot – that we can get a real feel for the work being done there in changing people's lives even more so than is the case at higher education level. I thank Mr. Brownlee. I have other questions, but perhaps...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Dr. Trant know how many craft apprenticeships were completed last year or even in the past 12 months to date?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Good. I would not like to see the money following the private institutions when public institutions are starved of funding, especially capital funding. Thanks for that. On the accommodation question-----

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to look at it now. We talk about access but what if there is no affordable accommodation for students to be able to live? If we look at a county such as Mayo, for somebody living in Belmullet or Blacksod it is more than an hour to travel to the university each day and it is not feasible. Someone would need student accommodation beside or near the Mayo campus. We do not want people...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Maybe that is one of the research projects that can be done.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does the HEA have the resources to support them?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would be great if Dr. Trant could supply that. Private colleges that provide apprenticeship training is a recent development. Where does Dr. Trant see that in the context of the future decentralisation of the craft model for apprenticeships? Will she speak to the role of private colleges in that? I will also ask Mr. Conlon about accommodation. Probably the biggest barrier to...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is what I am saying.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the pyrite and mica redress scheme making particular reference to the sliding scale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11991/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new build social homes and new build affordable homes that were delivered in County Mayo in 2021; the targets for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11990/22]

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish everybody a happy International Women's Day across the House, including Members, staff and former Members. We all share the solidarity we want to send to the hundreds of thousands of women and girls fleeing Ukraine, and many who have stayed behind and are actively involved in resisting the Russian invasion. I offer my unwavering solidarity at this deeply distressing time. We all...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank my colleague, Deputy Tully, for all the work she has put into this issue in her ongoing work with parents. It is important and she has proved to be an important voice for children with disabilities and for their parents, and I thank her for that. I do not doubt that the Minister of State wants to do something about this situation. She knows about the waiting lists and about the...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: They do not cover maternity leave. That is a disgrace in itself. It is not equal in all areas either. When people come from rural areas, like where I come from in Mayo, in CHO 2, things do not work together. Somebody must be responsible in the system for making things happen and making things work together, but that is not being done. The Minister of State has responsibility for this...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Millions and millions of euro are being spent here, but that is no good to the children and parents waiting tonight.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will bring a sustainable funding model to Cabinet; the reason for the delay in publishing the economic evaluation of the Cassells report in advance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12746/22]