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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The most important question is whether there is less or more student accommodation in the system. Sometimes from the way it is presented we give the impression that there is more but really there is less. When we look at the increase in the number of students, we have to recognise the issue that exists because this August and September will be the Minister's third year in the role. I do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad the focus is on PhD researchers at the moment and that there has been a realisation they are critical not only to our productivity, but to our social and economic growth now and into the future. There were reports last night that Jeffrey Sardina, a member of the national committee of the Postgraduate Workers Organisation, PWO, received documents from Revenue that indicated PhD...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I very much welcome this OECD report and look forward to examining it. It is crucial to our economic growth going forward. The national skills input into that will determine how we shape and create the human workforce as we go forward. We also need to be cognisant of the need to join things up. If we are encouraging lifelong education and upskilling of the workforce, we need to look at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for that update. We eagerly await the HEA recommendations on this matter. I am a bit concerned that we might start reinventing the wheel. The facts are there. Some 500 Irish students are outside the country studying veterinary medicine at the moment. It is important not to go backwards but to go forwards. We need this issue to be addressed as soon as possible. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We also need uniform accreditation across the island. That is important.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the recent recognition by the Minister for Health that Ireland needs to approximately double the number of healthcare professionals it is training, the steps that are being taken to deliver increased provision of healthcare education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15732/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister has partially discussed this issue. My question is related to the link-up between the demands in the health services and higher education, higher educational professionals and the training that is necessary. As a former Minister for Health, the Minister will understand the enormous gaps that exist. Money is being wasted in places such as Achill Island, where, as the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: One of the greatest barriers to part-time and lifelong learning is cost. We need to look at that. If people pay tens of thousands for a master’s, what does that say about us? How many people are being excluded? Reference was made to the digital strategy. That creates all kinds of opportunities for us, including opportunities to widen the gap in terms of inequality of access. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We have identified those blocks. We need to see where they are and get rid of them. Do the witnesses think associate membership of CERN would be okay or is full membership needed? Will they comment on east-west and North-South relations? Irish citizens in the North have to identify as British to access CERN membership. We urgently need to put the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for being here today and for their statements. My first question is for IBEC. When we look at the EU, we see that we are in the class of a strong innovator, but we are not innovation leaders like countries such as Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and Sweden. In one sense the European scorecard belies what is happening underneath and is something we need to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This point is about the apprenticeship system that the ESB uses. I think it is a really good model. There are 300 apprentices registered at the moment with the ESB and 25% of them are female, a figure that I would like to see increase. Given the huge demand for the skills that apprenticeships can deliver, what are the main barriers to increasing registration in the private and semi-State...

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Sheep farming is an important driver of economic activity in many parts of rural Ireland, generating €476 million in exports alone in 2022 from 47,123 farms involved in sheep farming, especially in areas that were otherwise starved of inward investment. Mayo is a mountainous county where agriculture plays a vital role in underpinning the rural economy. In Mayo more than 30% of the...

Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am deeply grateful I am to the Women of Honour, whom I welcome to the Public Gallery, and to all the women who came forward to give first-hand accounts of their experiences, both members and former members. I too want to recognise Katie Hannon. We should not be in a position where we have to wait for RTÉ to do a "Prime Time Investigates" programme before we react to some of this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Veterinary Services (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on veterinary provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15731/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student fees will be maintained at the level of €2,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15734/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his plans to ensure access to public service pensions for research staff in all higher education institutions across the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15735/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the ongoing PhD review; if he will consider bringing forward emergency measures to help PhD researchers deal with the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15733/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [14963/23]

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The failure to spend the money allocated for housing, the exclusion of most of County Mayo from the affordable housing scheme and the callous decision to remove the eviction ban are devastating families right here, right now. Men, women and children are being directly impacted. I am working with a woman from Westport. She has three daughters and is going to be evicted next Monday, 24...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Last week, the eyes of the world were on Ballina in County Mayo when Joe Biden came to visit us. This week, a report in the Mayo Newsstates a Ballina mother is begging for help as the prospect of having nowhere to live becomes more and more real with every passing day, as she talks about the lifting of the eviction ban. She said she has never begged for anything in her life but she is...