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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to engage with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to build on the recent agreement and regularise pension rights of school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13529/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome our guests. I also welcome Alex, who I hope finds this session interesting. I thank our guests for their opening statements, each of which spoke to what we need to do with the future funding model. My first question is for Mr. Jones from IFUT. He highlighted the impact that underfunding has had on the ranking of our institutes of higher education. In this committee, we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If the universities had the funding tomorrow morning, is there anything else that would stop them from doing that? Is it purely a matter of funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I ask for a brief answer on the SFI model and the 1% levy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am asking about the proposed 1% levy on corporation profits. The levy on the payroll is ring-fenced for the National Training Fund. Why is it proposed to levy 1% on profits instead of increasing the training fund levy? Is there any reason for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. Has the fact that the money is going to SFI impacted on the working conditions within the education sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank my colleagues, Deputies Ó Murchú and O'Rourke, for allowing me in today. I really wanted to be here to discuss this matter. Obviously like Deputy Calleary, I am from Mayo. In the context of its importance to the Atlantic economic corridor, is the western rail corridor shovel ready if the funding were to be provided tomorrow morning? I have read the report by Dr. John...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have heard the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, say how important it is to connect all that up. This is why I am confused. Every politician I speak to, with very few exceptions, seems to recognise the importance of it. If there is so much political support for it, why is it not happening? Why do we get a TEN-T report which leaves it out of the core projects again? During the Covid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do they all agree on the importance the western rail corridor? Do they all agree on how important rail infrastructure is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I need to interrupt Mr. Devane because we have limited time. Why have we moved to being a region in transition and why have we seen from the recent Central Statistics Office, CSO, figures showing that the income inequality gap is three times larger?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to give Mr. Feeney an opportunity to contribute. At €154 million, we are talking about a small amount of money. Why are we back here time and again? It does not make sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Climate change, emissions and so on as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How concerned is Mr. Feeney about recent developments in the TEN-T?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is my understanding as well. We have gone to Brussels and got the same answers. There are serious questions to be answered. The rail review is our last opportunity. I believe the Minister has said it will be published in late summer. We need to see this project being properly recognised in the rail review. I am also on the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion, not least because I come from north Mayo, an area of the country with one of the highest rates of fuel poverty. The fact is the Government is not doing enough. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald questioned An Tánaiste today but again got no response from him. That is no good to people who are struggling and juggling to pay their bills and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Company Liquidations (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Roadbridge entering receivership has come as a major shockwave to workers, contractors and suppliers throughout Mayo and this State. The extent of the devastation for workers and contractors is unfolding each day before our eyes as employees find that their pension contributions have not been paid, their health insurance has lapsed and they cannot afford to keep paying their mortgages. It...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Company Liquidations (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The people of Mayo will not stand for this. We will not be pushed to one side. People and contractors who have worked in our communities for years and years are not going to stand by and be pushed around like this. Something needs to be sorted and the Government has to step up for them and for the workers. One worker told me today of his experience of having to go to the Society of St....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to come back again to Roadbridge and reiterate that there is no way we are going to we will stand idly by in Mayo or in Erris and watch intergenerational contractors and suppliers who have been there for years, through thick and thin, being pushed to one side. I know the Minister is asking for stakeholders to engage. I specifically ask him to, please, step in on the issue of Bord na...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will announce the 2022-2024 multi-annual rural water programme funding for County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14229/22]