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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Assistance Fund (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I share the Minister's concerns about the student loan model. We need to get this model right such that it will serve students and their families. We need to do that as a matter of urgency and we need to look at education as an investment and not purely a cost. We do not want our students to be leaving college, or worse still to be forced to drop out of college, because of financial...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide grant aid to support and stimulate the growth of rail freight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31128/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce the current track access charges for rail freight, which are currently the highest in the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31129/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that at the end of August 2020 the French Prime Minister announced that France would waive track access charges for rail freight for the remainder of 2020 and cut them in half for all of 2021, EU regulations permitting; his plans to support the regulation to reduce, waive or defer track...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if financial supports are planned to allow Iarnród Éireann to modernise and expand its rail freight rolling stock fleet as the current limited stock will not allow for business expansion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31131/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the maximum net income a couple with two children can earn and still quality for local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31551/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the numbers of persons receiving invalidity payments by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31538/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details on the training, upskilling and reskilling available for those on invalidity payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31539/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no specific plan was put in place to address the disadvantage faced by the 8,000 students who sat the leaving certificate prior to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30256/20]

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I very much welcome this motion on post offices and also the Sinn Féin amendment. Several weeks ago I raised the subject with the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, regarding the future of post offices, what was happening in some cases and changes that need to be made. I commend the postmasters and the postmistresses who provide such a vital service. It is not only an economic service...

Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: At the outset, I congratulate the Acting Chairman, Deputy Murnane O'Connor. I know the people of Carlow will be very proud of her. I wish her well. I wish to speak about two matters. The Minister of State might have heard of the first, the Kilnageer railway crossing in Breaffy, Castlebar. This feeds in to what my colleague Deputy O'Rourke has been saying about the RAIU. The railway...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On 7 March 2017, I was very proud of our former Taoiseach and my fellow countyman, Enda Kenny, when he gave a very emotional speech in the Dáil. He stated: We gave them up because of our perverse, in fact, morbid relationship with what is called respectability. Indeed, for a while it seemed as if in Ireland our women had the amazing capacity to self-impregnate. For their trouble, we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €167 million announced as Covid-19 related expenditure in Budget 2021 is separate and in addition to the €168 million announced in July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31911/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the €167 million announced as Covid-19 related expenditure in the Budget 2021 will be spent by category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31912/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the €38 million allocation of additional resources in Budget 2021 will be spent by category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31913/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills His plans to pay €3,000 per employer as part of the apprenticeships incentivisation scheme; if the target is 4,000 additional apprenticeships and financial resources allocated is €8 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31914/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (21 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if universities in Northern Ireland are able to offer courses through the CAO system; his views on whether the inclusion of institutes of higher education in Northern Ireland participating in the CAO would increase cross-Border enrolment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31915/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to put supports in place for nursing and other medical students that have been forced to give up work for a number of months during placement in order to avoid any risk associated with cross contamination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31916/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (21 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 14 October 2020, if Dublin Technical University currently holds no debt; if he plans to create a borrowing framework for the technological universities to allow them to borrow in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31917/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Some 33,301 leaving certificate grades were appealed this year on behalf of 12,215 students. Only 18 of those students received increased grades. Was it worthwhile to hold an appeals process, thereby giving these students false hope? Will the leaving certificate resits take place in November now that we are under a level 5 lockdown?