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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (14 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 818. To ask the Minister for Health the number of planned surgeries that have been cancelled in each hospital of the Saolta Hospital Group over each of the past six months as a result of bed capacity issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39383/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (14 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 819. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for approval of a home care application; the level of delayed discharges from each hospital in the Saolta Group while waiting on a home care package or community bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39384/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (14 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 820. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community hospital beds in Mayo available to patients on discharge from acute hospitals; if he plans to increase community bed capacity in Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39385/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That was really interesting. I acknowledge the work of Mr. John Lonergan, who has highlighted many of these issues over the years. I did some work with him quite a number of years ago and he continuously spoke about the prison population. There are really good things being done and I will speak to them in a moment but there is really a failure of the education system when we see 80% of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My time is up, but perhaps the Chair will allow me back in later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We could have the dollars from oil and gas if we did things differently, like Norway. That was interesting. I commend everybody who is involved in this. This is the kind of innovative, common-sense, long-term thinking that we need across the board. Ms McCaffrey said the IPS spent €3.7 million over three years. How does that compare with the prior three years? How many additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It cultivates the space for hope and the enthusiasm for learning when everybody is involved in it. How many of the 13 education centres have been upgraded since 2019?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has a directory been complied of all the prison education available across the Prison Service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It would be good to give it to the committee. The witnesses gave good examples of people successfully transitioning into employment and further education and training. Have any longitudinal studies been carried out in the context of obtaining evidence for the correlation between those who have taken up education and training opportunities in the prison population and those who have not in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I apologise as I had to step out between sessions. Is Ms O'Connell talking about an individual plan for each person?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What proportion of prisoners refuse to participate in education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can Ms Byrne outline some of the actions from the strategy that have yet to be delivered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Stephen O'Connor mentioned the long relationship with Open University and it is great to hear that two people have graduated in environmental sciences. Are the course fees paid by the Irish Prison Service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Did that relationship develop because there were no online options? Is that changing now and are more universities offering courses that could be done in prisons?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can Ms O'Connell provide further information on the Mountjoy Prison-Maynooth University partnership?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are okay with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister of State has answered most of the questions I had. I express my condolences on the passing of his mum. I welcome the Bill. What we are trying to achieve in it in respect of transparency and effectiveness is very welcome. We need to ensure there are no unintended consequences. The more ambiguity we can remove from the Bill, the better. My main query and my main reason for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It was only that. Obviously, the question of third level is also of interest to me, as is what the Department is doing there in fitting in with the HEA Bill we recently dealt with, trying to get the balance there between autonomy and accountability.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad the Minister of State raised that. How is the retrospective nature of that going to be applied? I believe there is provision in there for it to be retrospective, which would be very helpful.