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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I strongly welcome the inclusion of academic and non-academic staff on the governing authority. However, my view remains the same. We are attempting to squeeze too much needed representation into an unnecessarily small governing authority. That said, I think this is a very positive improvement.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 185: In page 84, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(b) at least 20 per cent of members shall have a level B2 or higher of competency in spoken Irish on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR),”. Again, the amendment seeks to increase the Irish language competency on the governing authority. We have discussed...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 196: In page 102, lines 8 and 9, to delete "and cultural" and substitute ", cultural and Irish language". The aim of the amendment is "to delete "and cultural" and substitute ", cultural and Irish language"".

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 207: In page 109, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “(7) Where a designated institution of higher education departs from guidelines, codes or policies prepared under subsection (1), the designated institution of higher education shall be afforded an opportunity to provide an explanation as to— (a) which parts of the guidelines, codes or...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is not a first, to be out of order.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (28 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider providing a tax exemption for apprenticeship allowances during participants' off-site training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21407/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (28 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will conclude the review into providing agricultural contractors with a similar status to farmers regarding the carbon tax on green diesel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21406/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1082. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recipients of invalidity pensions are required to go on partial capacity benefit in order to take up a PhD; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20882/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1083. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disabled PhD students lose eligibility to the fuel allowance and other means tested secondary supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20909/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1084. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the manner in which academic scholarships for undergraduate or masters level impact on invalidity, pension and secondary supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20910/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1085. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that income from compulsory work as part of a PhD such as grading papers, teaching support and so on will affect disability support payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20911/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget line under which mental health supports in higher education are currently drawn; if recent increases will be put on a more permanent footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of EU students enrolled in graduate-entry medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20172/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intended to conduct an updated review of the cost of providing consortia-led apprenticeships given the increase from 5,100 in 2015 to an estimated 9,877; the targeted cost once programmes are established and set up cost are no longer a factor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20879/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that his Department is taking to address low registration levels in certain construction-related trades such as brick-laying and plastering; the apprenticeships that are being targeted in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20880/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of the Exchequer of waiving the student contribution charge for all EU nursing students in the state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20883/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the training capacity of each college of further education per apprenticeship type and the total increase since 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20912/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding for the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit for the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20929/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding for the National Open Research Coordinator for the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20930/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (26 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the €37.305 million in research funding allocated directly to his Department was spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20932/22]