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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all members of the National Apprenticeship Alliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14195/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the total expenditure on higher education programme B is set to decrease by approximately €59.6 million in 2022 as outlined by the Parliamentary Budget Office in a recent report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14411/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to help Irish students returning from Ukraine to continue their studies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure interim list of eligible programmes, ILEP, rules are adequately enforced; if he will bring forward proposals to regulate agencies that sell English language courses in the State and provide greater levels of learner protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14750/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1025. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the pandemic bonus to front-line workers at Cancer Care West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14751/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (23 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the naturalisation case of a person (details supplied) will be examined given that they are currently unable to represent the national team in an upcoming international competition if citizenship is not awarded in time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15295/22]

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with Deputies Andrews and Ó Murchú. I welcome the opportunity to speak on Second Stage of the Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill. This legislation has been well flagged and has had a long gestation before reaching the Dáil. It is to be welcomed that we now have the legislation before us for scrutiny. The aim of the Bill is to facilitate the...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their extremely valuable contributions. This is probably one of the most valuable sessions we are likely to have, particularly considering their experience working on the Cassells report. My first question to the witnesses is how much damage do they think has been done? It is five years after the Cassells report was published. It has come back from the EU but we...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: The question is whether we can catch up. Is there an opportunity to catch up or are we too far behind? How long will it take us to catch up, even if recurrent and capital spending are addressed, considering what we have lost out on since 2016?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are we putting higher and further education beyond the reach of people? It was referred to earlier that the system is there to suit the two adults with 2.4 children, a cat and a dog. If one goes outside of that, it creates bureaucratic nightmares for people and huge barriers to entry. How concerned are the witnesses about that?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: The abolition of fees would obviously greatly help that also.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is a very important discussion, but we cannot discuss things in isolation by saying "We are all for this and not for that." The witness referred to the fact that getting a radical model of SUSI is quite unlikely but we have all made substantial submissions here. This is why it really concerns me that reference was made to leaving the highest fees in Europe here, that we are okay with...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is why I am saying that we need to discuss it in the whole context. We have an opportunity here to get this right.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: We cannot just say that students will be the cash cows for this. Even in terms of student accommodation, we know what is happening with the high-end student accommodation that is being supplied to bring the money in, because this is filling a gap also. This is why our core funding is so important. I absolutely and 100% take what the witnesses have said about lifelong learning, but rather...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, It is very important.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to ask about the research because so little goes to technological universities. However, we now have an opportunity. I am particularly interested in the Atlantic Technological University and the capacity there for competing in research and development. What do we need for that and how do we do it? We must make sure that a bigger share is going to the technological universities and...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I agree with every word of that. If we look at the Central Statistics Office, CSO, figures the inequality gap is three times wider than it was ten years ago.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 357. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Oireachtas urgent query line (details supplied) has been discontinued; if so, when it was discontinued; if he will consider reinstating the line due to the ongoing high demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15826/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (29 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of naturalisation applications; the number that are waiting more than 18 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15872/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (29 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 549. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason naturalisation applications by persons (details supplied) have been delayed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15873/22]