Results 641-660 of 6,645 for speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I foresee that as the various schemes for workers and businesses come to an end, a number of companies will be withdrawing from the State. What legislation does the Government have in place to ensure that workers' rights will be protected in that scenario and that we will not end up in the circumstances in which we ended up recently regarding the Debenhams and Arcadia workers? When is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans to construct a special needs unit attached to a school (details supplied); if the unit will be integrated within the main school; if it will be a standalone project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9265/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Expansion of the Technological Universities: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I refer to progression on the Connacht Ulster Alliance. Ensuring apprenticeships are a vital component was referred to in the speech. When will the apprenticeship strategy be developed or when will it be finished? Can the Minister, Deputy Harris, speak about that in connection with the technological universities? We spoke last week about the ongoing funding needed. We want to avoid a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Expansion of the Technological Universities: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister should have. As he is aware, the Connacht Ulster Alliance is enormously important, in particular in terms of the transatlantic cable, opportunities in respect of climate change and investment opportunities in the west which fit with the Atlantic economic corridor. The Atlantic economic corridor has not been given the credence and opportunities we need to give it and that...

New Decade, New Approach Agreement: Statements (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: One of the most important elements of the New Decade, New Approach agreement and of all the preceding agreements, is the provision of educational innovation and research opportunities across the island. The agreement commits the Irish Government to delivering for the people of the North on a sustainable economic basis. A post-conflict education system must be underpinned and permeated by...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons that have submitted a UK driver licence to be transferred to an Irish licence; the number still waiting to be issued an Irish licence; if these persons are permitted to drive in the interim period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9424/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 17 February 2021, when payment was given to a company (details supplied); the terms on which payment was provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10250/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Archives (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 254. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to introduce legislation to enable the development of systematic web archiving on a legal deposit basis; her views on the need for such an archive for Ireland’s national research infrastructure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10328/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Colleges (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if publicly-funded higher education institutions are restricted or limited to independently determining the number of students they enrol for professional masters of education courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10081/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of extending the Gaeltacht grant to students in a college (details supplied) in 2021; the estimated cost if the grant was extended to the 800 second-year students in the college; the estimated cost if it was extended to both first and second-year students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10507/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for the Connacht-Ulster Alliance of GMIT, LYIT and IT Sligo has been submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9537/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who have already paid their fees for the 2020-2021 academic year will effectively be unable to access the €250 Covid support until September 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9540/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if PhD students who have scholarships that cover their fees will be unable to access €250 Covid support until they graduate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9541/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has completed its consultation with the Department of Finance and the necessary arrangements have been put in place to ensure there are no tax implications, particularly in terms of tax relief, for the recipients of the €250 support or their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9575/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of further education students who received each level of SUSI support, such as full maintenance grants, full fees, 50% fees and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9751/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 556 of 15 September 2020, if the same figure will be provided for all academic years from 2015 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9752/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Issues (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there have been changes to the way that Irish students studying in Scotland will be treated as a result of Brexit; if will they continue to be treated as home students and eligible for support with fees for the 2021-22 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9984/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students enrolled in professional masters of education course by public and private colleges, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10082/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the development of a national public genomics programme given that €66 million in funding has already been given to a private company engaged in the collection and analysis of DNA without assurances of future access to the database; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10246/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 690. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure by higher education institutions on constructing student accommodation since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10247/21]