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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My question relates to the sodium valproate inquiry. The Minister knows it is more than two years since that was promised by the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, in the House. The officials from the Department have told Organisation Anticonvulsant Syndromes Ireland, or OACS Ireland, and Epilepsy Ireland that the draft terms of reference for this inquiry were to go to Cabinet before...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new-build social homes that were delivered in 2022 in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3719/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ukraine War (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the challenges Ukrainian refugees are experiencing in accessing car insurance due to the non-recognition of previous driving experience and claims history; the steps he is taking to ensure equitable access to car insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3827/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Sir John Major (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome Sir John. At the time of his prime ministership, I lived in London. I want to look at the Good Friday Agreement in terms of it being a living document, as we are the implementation committee of it. Obviously, the British and Irish Governments are co-guarantors of that agreement. The Good Friday Agreement and the 2003 joint declaration in St. Andrews, and the New Decade, New...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Sir John Major (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Looking at it a quarter of a century on the other side of the agreement, we question here what co-guarantor means and the responsibilities on both Governments to make sure those agreements are fully implemented. It is a concern. Also, many of the challenges people in the North face, even right now, would not be as challenging were those agreements to be implemented in full. We already...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: At the European Council meeting the Tánaiste discussed economic resilience. That requires investing in infrastructure. Why has the Government not included the western rail corridor project in the EU TEN-T? Only projects included in the TEN-T list of projects have access to the Connecting Europe Facility, known as the CEF fund. It is up to each country to lay out its priorities for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations earlier. I listened in to them. I commend the good work being done all across County Mayo. We do have a problem, though, where there is not a growing population. There are, for example, 60 pupils in Midfield national school in Swinford. This school has been going since 1964 and there is poor infrastructure there. It has no hall of any shape...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are so many competing demands. There might be a situation where a school's windows desperately need to be done, the yard needs to be done, and the shelter needs to be done. There is not the room there within the summer works scheme. Is there something that can be done to uphold the rights of the children who are using those schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does the Department understand that if the shelter is not there, in the context of climate, it would be very important in terms of children being kept warm. I just need to come out of this meeting with some kind of hope for these schools that they will be listened to. Mr. Loftus is right that schools, families and teachers know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know, but the children who are there now will have children and grandchildren before we get around to doing it. I am not being obstreperous here. I just need to know for the kids who are there, right here and now, and who need something as basic as a shelter or their school yard to be done. These are the types of things that keep getting refused in the emergency scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Some are dropping through the net which will not get CLÁR, LEADER or any of those. It is the Department of Education's responsibility to ensure education is provided. My colleague, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, spoke about the importance of physical activity earlier. I ask the witnesses, coming out of the committee, to look at those schools and what can be done because it will make an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Where there are huge gaps, can the schools go back to the Department and say this is the gap in the quote? Will the Department consider those cases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will go back to a topic I asked about earlier. In dealing with many of my questions, the witnesses referred to the emergency works scheme and the summer works scheme. Are there caps on the amount available to a school under each of these schemes? With regard to the decision-making process, particularly for rural schools, how much weight is given to population size? Mr. Loftus spoke...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: One can see the difficulty in terms of things being population driven. How do we entice people into areas? If we have areas without schools, we are almost giving up if we just follow the population and do not do things to attract people and increase the population in those areas. I have a couple of other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How many national and secondary schools have those filters in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is 35 schools out of how many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In terms of the different funding streams that were available to schools, do we know at this moment how many schools have these filters in place? If we were to have a Covid outbreak again or some other development next winter, how many schools would be in a better situation than they were during the pandemic in terms of keeping windows and doors open and all of those things?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand that. However, has the Department measured this in terms of where matters stand? Does Mr. Dolan know what I am trying to get at?