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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the number of clinical psychologists needed in the third level system been quantified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No, we cannot. We cannot stand over that. This feeds into the precarious working conditions throughout the third level sector. We certainly cannot ask people to do it free. This was my next question. They must undertake 300 hours of unpaid work in the course of their studies. How does this compare with the number of working hours for a clinical psychologist? I am trying to get a sense...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Exactly. I wonder what their own mental health is like when they are treated like this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What has been the response so far from the Minister and the Department to reducing the barriers for counselling and educational trainee psychologists?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No. There are pragmatic solutions to all of these issues. We are not speaking about sending somebody to an outer planet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How will we cope with the welcome influx of Ukrainian third-level students? Many of them will need intensive supports after the traumatic experiences they have had. How will we cope with this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I do not mind. I ask whoever is best placed to deal with it to respond. Perhaps we will have an opportunity to ask more questions later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I was tuned in from the beginning and had to turn off when I got on campus to get down to the committee room. I have listened with interest to what everybody has said and I thank the witnesses for their submissions on this important subject. I also listened to the contributions that went before me from committee members. It is clearly established that once-off funding on a yearly basis...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The first thing we need is more data to see the extent of the problem. We know what is happening. We know because young people ring politicians in the middle of the night. They should not be ringing us to ask us for clinical help. We also know from the Irish Patients Association report and yesterday's HSE report that many people who present at emergency departments get fed up waiting for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Therein the problem lies and it is quite shocking. As was said earlier, lip service is paid to it. Everyone says they deeply care about the mental health of young people but we do not do what we need to do, even the very simple things, to fix the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do our guests think there is a crisis in mental health in the third-level sector? What will happen if there is no intervention or proper planning? We have an opportunity here as we consider the future funding for higher education. We either take it or we ignore the problems and issues our guests have presented us with today. Is there a crisis? Can it deepen if nothing is done about it? ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are there disparities between institutions in approach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How might the collision of the cost-of-living crisis and the mental health crisis impact these matters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Would anyone else like to comment on that question about the cost of living?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 17: In page 15, after line 38, to insert the following: "(h) to promote the attainment of the national aims of restoring the Irish language and preserving and developing the national culture, including by promoting teaching, learning and research across the wide diversity of disciplines at higher level through the medium of Irish.".

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The HSE has just informed me that it does not know how many GPs in any county, or State-wide, are accepting new medical card patients because it does not collect that data. I have been contacted by a number of constituents who have been unable to find a GP in Mayo to take them on. These constituents were only assigned a GP after they contacted the HSE themselves. This comes on the back of...

Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the Central Bank regulations seeking to ban dual pricing. I commend my colleague, Sinn Féin's finance spokesperson, Deputy Doherty, who has painstakingly and relentlessly pursued this issue. That is known the length and breadth of this country. It is disappointing that the legislation will not ban the practice but will simply require the CBI to produce a report on the impact...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister knows this is wrong. He knows it is the wrong thing to do and so do his fellow Deputies and Ministers. It is disgraceful they have left the Minister on his own in here this evening and have not even come in. They and councillors have taken to the airwaves throughout country, trying to detach themselves from this. It speaks to the absolute chaos in Government. In terms of...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the opportunity to speak again in opposition to the carbon tax and the turf ban. It is truly hard to fathom why the Government remains so wedded to this idea. We were told originally that this tax was a revenue-raising measure and intended to provide an incentive for people to move away from fossil fuels but incentives only work where alternatives are in place. This argument has...