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Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this opportunity to discuss insurance reform again. The cost of living has spiked as a result of high energy prices and supply chain issues, but many have been struggling under the high costs long before the recent wave of inflation. The Minister of State will be aware of all the times we discussed this in the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My colleague will take the amendment as Gaeilge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: At the outset, I want to thank the Minister of State for meeting with the families who were impacted by the valproate scandal last year. Their educational needs are enormously important. They have made the Minister of State aware of the shortcomings of the stakeholders group and what needs to be done there. It is my hope that we will have an agreement on the terms of reference for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am aware that it does not fall directly within the brief of the Minister of State since the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, but I want to raise with her the issue of personal assistants in the further education system. They do a similar job to SNAs. However, their employment terms are far worse. They have no pension or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know this does not come under the remit of the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State; I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There is no impediment. Nothing would bar-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----UCD from doing the accreditation for that level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think the Minister of State has understood from everyone here today that the accreditation is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Or to delay it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I do not have any further questions. The accreditation needs to be there as soon as possible and it should have been there from the beginning. The commitments have been made by the Minister of State today on pathways, having the accreditation, widening to the rest of the country and having a review. I hope that will be a 360-degree evaluation and the families with which SNAs are working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Pike has covered my last question in his reply to Deputy O'Callaghan. Most of my questions have been covered. I thank the witnesses for their very valuable contributions. I am listening acutely to them. Are they assured by any of the things the Minister of State has said this morning? What were the positive things she has committed to or said? What most concerns the witnesses that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Lambert. Ms Galster has said that she has a special interest in autism, in particular, and that she has done a great deal of training around that. She knows that in working with children and young people with autism that there are enormous skills in some places which go above and beyond what she, I, and others who are non-autistic students would be able to do. These students...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a brief question for Ms O' Sullivan. I am very interested to hear her praise for UCD and I think that is very good. Does she have any idea of the spread across the country of the participants on that course? In terms of the delivery online, is there any impediment to learning there or would it be better - in her opinion - as a combination of blended and online?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Our guests have collectively given a really good picture of where things are at and what needs to be done and how quickly it needs to be done. I thank all of them for their contributions.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I support these amendments and they provide for flexibility for an institute of technology or a college to join an established TU. It is important that all colleges and institutes of technology have a pathway to be included in the TUs. I am mindful of St. Angela's College as well as it is in my geographical area.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is vitally important that the HEA and the higher education sector have a clear role in taking climate change and biodiversity action. I recognise the progress that has been made in amendment No. 7, as well as in the other amendment, and as such I will not be pressing our amendment.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 9: In page 14, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Autonomy of institutions of higher education 7. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Act shall be construed as impinging upon— (a) the autonomy of a designated institution of higher education, (b) the continued operation of the comply or explain principle which shall operate in...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 10: In page 15, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(b) to protect and enhance the public nature of the higher education system;”. This is about protecting the public nature of higher education, which we have often spoken about. The principle behind this amendment is the most important point that we would like reflected in the Bill....

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We would not want to inhibit local solutions with regard to education provision. My concern is that higher and further education is very valuable and that lots of money can be made from it. We often find that organisations and companies follow the money. With amendment No. 20, as with No. 10, we sought to explicitly recognise the public nature of the higher education system, which should...