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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Given the level of investment required here, it is vital to get the education quality and the accreditation standards right from the beginning. I am not naming any one in particular, but the institute or the institutes, because there could be collaboration between North and South, tasked with delivering the course must have the capacity to deliver from the get-go. That is the bottom line....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on student accommodation projects at advanced stages of planning that remain undeveloped due to a lack of agreement on Government support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6963/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can the Minister provide an update on the student accommodation projects at advanced stages of planning that remain undeveloped due to the lack of agreement on Government support? Will the Minister explain to us the situation regarding the students who are excluded from the rent tax credit? The Taoiseach was unable to do so earlier today. I want to be clear for once and for all what...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. It is vitally important that these projects are progressed sooner rather than later. The Minister knows I have pushed for a long time for public funding for student accommodation because it is integral to students participating in third level education, in particular students from rural areas. How is the Minister making sure that the beds will be affordable once...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is included.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Affordability is crucial. As this is the first time there has been public investment in student accommodation, we must get it right from the beginning to meet the affordability criteria. There is no point in having student accommodation or any type of accommodation if it is beyond the reach of ordinary people so we must get it right. I wanted to get clarity because this is not what has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Staff (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Deputy Gannon for raising this important topic. Will a more formal consultation process take place later in the review process and include the stakeholder engagement? We are concerned that at the moment, it is more of a scoping exercise without a consultation paper and that submissions are not actively being sought. I join Deputy Gannon in urging the Minister to request the chairs...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Veterinary Services (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Here I am again with the vets. At this stage, I have probably spoken to the vast majority of vets from across the island. They obviously want to get this right, as do I. I come from a farming community along the western seaboard and we have long wanted a veterinary school there. It makes sense. It does concern me when the Minister speaks of an extension of what is already there because...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to raise with the Minister the issue of the special rate of SUSI. There have been adjustments in the social welfare payments and cost-of-living measures. We have not seen a corresponding increase in the threshold for the special rate, however. Can the Minister assure anxious parents and students that no one will lose out on the special rate of SUSI as a result of any social welfare...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can the parents claim it for the student?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scientific Research (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the submission to the Government on associate membership of CERN being prepared by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6961/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scientific Research (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister knows the associate membership fee of CERN is a minimum of €1.52 million annually, based on 10% of the full membership cost, which is estimated at €15.2 million annually. This is very important. Could the Minister provide an update? I know discussions have been happening on membership of CERN. As the Minister is aware, it is vitally important in so many ways. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scientific Research (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is welcome news. I acknowledge the work done by PhD researcher Michael Mitchell from Trinity College Dublin in pushing this. He is a young Castlebar man who recognises the importance of it. The Minister has met with him, as I have. In the case of associate membership, the return to Ireland would be capped at the same level as the amount invested. To become a full member, a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scientific Research (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Concurrent with that, we need to re-energise and renew interest in physics in schools. We need to start looking at how we get more young people interested in this at national school level because it is the future, solves so many problems for us and will do so into the future.

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion and welcome the opportunity to give voice to households and small businesses in Mayo that are crippled by extortionate electricity and energy bills. You only had to listen to Midwest Radio this morning to hear people ringing in and talking about bills that used to be €250 but are now €1,000, €1,200 and beyond. They...

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister needs to clear this up because there is too much messing around and people are being fleeced. Their money is being robbed from their accounts. The electricity companies are taking every penny out of their accounts. This is money for food, rent, mortgages and medicine. The Government is acting as a spectator and is allowing this to happen. It is not right. People are living...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will leave out the preamble so. I thank all the witnesses for coming today. I am particularly grateful to Ms Cousins, the deputy secretary of the skills and education group, for making the effort to be here. We are trying to create more opportunities for people of all ages to access education across the island, which can only be good. The recent survey carried out for The Irish Timesand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The exclusivity clause is key. Who would be able to look at that? How can that be examined to understand the barrier that is creating? Is there anything this committee can do on that? Obviously, this is coming from the British Government. How can we help?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the HEA or the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science looked at ways to reform the interpretation of A level points and turn them into CAO points for students from the North as a means of increasing access?