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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has any work been done in regard to aligning the assignment and releasing the results with the A-levels in the North through our work on the increasing cross-Border enrolment in further and higher education? We have repeatedly come across challenges in relation to the examinations, the grades and the timing of results. These have been substantial barriers and they have come across time and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In terms of North-South, it is a real barrier there in terms of the timings of things being resolved. Has the SEC really examined that and how we can have an all-island approach to creating the opportunities across the island?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is that something the SEC will look at again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That will be soon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will address the issue of critical thinking. I have looked at the Oxford report, cited in several areas around the assessment of higher order thinking, which recommended that the curriculum be narrowed. How can students do seven subjects in any depth, and allow time and space for critical thinking, when we are trying to assess so many subjects? How do we have more critical thinking and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are the representatives satisfied that the marking system reflects the critical thinking that is necessary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish all the students today who are doing their practical day in engineering the best of luck, including my own son who has his 19th birthday today as well. What a way to spend your birthday, doing the practical subject.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. Can Ms Feeney see an alignment of the results being released throughout the island in future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will publish the 2022 Research and Development Tax Credit Statistics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer on an annual basis of the tuition tax relief for undergraduate courses in public higher institutes of education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21355/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Inflation Rate (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated level of inflation for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21377/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average annual cost of studying part-time at 'undergraduate and postgraduate level in public institutes of higher education; the total number of part-time undergraduate and postgraduate students in public institutes of higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21354/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of reducing part-time undergraduate and below course fees by €500, €1000 and abolishing them completely in public institutes of higher education for EU students; the cost of reducing postgraduate fees by €500, €1000 and abolishing them completely in public institutes of higher education for EU students; and...