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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Trade Unions on Keeping Schools Open: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We want to see the raw data. It is a bit like the situation with insurance companies. The data can mean anything one wants it to mean. We need to know the raw data to ensure the health, safety and well-being of everybody operating in our schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Trade Unions on Keeping Schools Open: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will go back to what I was asking the Minister a few days ago regarding close contacts and the burden that is placed on principals in not being to be able to tell people whether they are a close contact or not. My question is this: what is the point of telling principals, if they are then told that they cannot tell anybody or share that information with other teachers within in the school;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Engagement with Trade Unions on Keeping Schools Open: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I acknowledge that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Further and Higher Education Sectors: Discussion (19 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Ms Gildernew. I am delighted to welcome Mr. Hannigan and Professor Ó Néill to this meeting. I thank them for their contributions and for keeping us up to date. I welcome the physical presence of my colleague, Mr. John Finucane. This is the first meeting he has attended in Dublin since the commencement of the new term. What has been presented to us today and the ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the challenges faced by the many persons who are over the income thresholds for social housing but do not earn enough secure a mortgage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38821/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeships that have been furloughed; the number that have been made redundant as a result of Covid-19; if the introduction of an incentivisation scheme has been considered to encourage firms to take apprentices back on that have been laid-off or furloughed in the form of a return and retain scheme; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (24 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the transfer of responsibility for the national training fund to his Department has been completed; when he plans to publish the expenditure report in this regard for 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38357/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to contribute. I also thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee. I am sure that every Oireachtas Member will want to be here. We expect there will be seismic change in customer care and customer service from now on. The impact this has on the productivity of business customers who are waiting weeks and months to have their queries and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is 40 short and it has 150,000 new customers, as well as all of the problems with Covid. That speaks for itself. How are those staff supposed to provide the service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Eir does not have enough staff. I commend the staff who try to sort out the issues but people do not really know the extent of the problem because so many cannot get through. I put it to Ms Lennon that if people want to listen to music for hours and hours, over weeks and months, they will connect to Spotify. They do not want music from Eir, they want a service. They want a service that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Issues (26 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Ireland signing up to the proposed European peace facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29131/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if cleaners are considered as critical staff in the running of schools; her plans to provide pension rights to long service cleaners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39457/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (26 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of part-time students currently enrolled or the most current figures available; the number of part-time third level students, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39335/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Establishment of an Independent Public Inquiry into the Murder of Pat Finucane: Motion (26 Nov 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I again thank Mr. Finucane. No matter how often one hears the story of his mother and the rest of the family, it still sounds as horrific as ever. What he said about the system working perfectly stood out for me. It certainly worked perfectly. It is a system that is allowing the British Government to stop the truth from being revealed. The consequences of this stretch far across the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether cleaners are critical staff in the running of schools; her plans to provide pension rights to long-service cleaners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40006/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to ask the Minister whether, in her view, cleaners are critical staff in the running of schools, and if that view will be reflected in how she approaches pension reform for long-service cleaners. Cleaners have always played a central and vital role in schools but, with Covid, their importance has increased. Does the Department have any plans to move cleaners into the public service...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: To say we give schools the money and they are responsible for this is an abdication of responsibility. Whereas they are not legally defined as such, these people are certainly public servants. It is argued that they are not employees of the State, despite the fact that the body that employs them on a long-term basis is funded by the State. The third reason put forward is these people have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We have heard all those arguments before. We heard them in the cases of school secretaries and caretakers. Recently the Government finally agreed to sit down for talks to regularise the pay, conditions of employment and pension provision of school secretaries and caretakers, which is a welcome development. I look forward to an outcome that they have waited on for a long time. These...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a need to provide an individual workplace risk assessment for SNAs and teachers who are high risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40005/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 134. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the supports available to sole traders who are also PAYE employees and who have not lost employment due to Covid-19 but who find themselves still covering the costs related to their self-employment and have lost all income related to that self-employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39953/20]