Results 3,021-3,040 of 6,653 for speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. We hear them time and time again. We cannot hear them often enough but very little happens in terms of implementation. It is frustrating from our point of view so it must be frustrating from the witnesses' point of view when they see so little movement yet they present all the solutions here today. We do not need enormous reports or pilot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The provision in itself creates anxiety. What impact are the challenges of student accommodation and the financial pressures having on mental health? Will Ms Hughes describe that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I am very concerned about students who are going directly into the leaving certificate cycle without knowing what their results are, which has an impact in terms of choices. As has been said, we obviously have an ongoing issue in terms of late results, which reduces students' ability to take up opportunities across the island and in Britain....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: One of the biggest problems we have in terms of having all-island student mobility is the equivalence of the results but also not getting the results on time. What efforts have been made in recent years to have the results provided in a more timely manner, or are we always stuck with 15 August or around that time in terms of leaving certificate results?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, but it is a problem and a challenge we need to sort out together. Are the witnesses looking at any way the results can be brought forward so we do not have to wait until after others have released their results?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If we had enough markers in the system, and had the supply side sorted out, would it be achievable that we could have results earlier.than normal in this State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I get all that and I have a very limited amount of time. When did the Department start recruiting for examiners last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the commission started recruiting for next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay, so that should solve the problem for next year and we will have enough markers in terms of early recruitment and the incentives that are offered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Have we measured at all what impact the introduction of the digital measures has had ?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is the future. Maybe that will address some of the other problems I was talking about. It has been identified as an issue right across the third level sector in terms of the accessibility of opportunities across the island. I would very much like if that could be looked at as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Who is accountable for pulling that all together to make sure it is solved?

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Redundancies in the tech sector have been receiving much of the media and political attention in recent days. It is a serious situation for the people involved and, indeed, the wider economy. At the same time, I am concerned that we are facing a crisis in small businesses operating in local economies. Towns and villages in my county of Mayo and elsewhere in the State are in danger of...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad of this opportunity to speak to the Minister of State. There are three things I want him to do. He needs to tell Irish Water to sort out the legacy debt and the leak credits for the group water schemes. We have been begging Irish Water to do that for months and years. In addition, the above-ground assets, such as reservoirs and pumping stations, also need to be transferred from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Senator George J. Mitchell (27 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am from County Mayo, where I met Senator Mitchell a couple of years ago when he gave a talk at the Mary Robinson Centre there. It is great to have him online today and I thank him for all the great work he has done. Ms Gildernew asked the question I had about the importance of opening up educational opportunities across the island. I acknowledge all that is being done in this regard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Senator George J. Mitchell (27 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Senator Mitchell very much.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (8 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans for the development of an electricity grid in the west of Ireland to facilitate the transfer to electric from west to east at-scale to unlock the renewable wind energy potential in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55404/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (8 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which individuals and families living in multi-resident accommodation where there are separate electricity meters but only one MPRN number, can receive the electricity credit, and in instances where there are two MPRN numbers on the one post-code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55405/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (8 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 241 of 25 October 2022, if multinational corporations, including those with global revenue above €750 million, will be eligible for the maximum €10,000 energy grant; if multiple subsidiaries of the same company can each make applications for the energy grant up to the maximum of €10,000; and if he...