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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 772. To ask the Minister for Health if headstones services are classed as an essential service and permitted under current Covid-19-related restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9442/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 798. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 856 of 10 February, the funding allocated in the 2021 HSE service plan for the hospice (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9532/21]

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: First Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision in relation to certain tenants’ obligations to pay rent in respect of dwellings used for accommodation during academic term times, to make provision in relation to the maximum period of notice required by such tenants to terminate a tenancy, to oblige certain landlords to refund relevant payments in...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: First Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (25 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the public expenditure on research and development and as a percentage in each year since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10604/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State for their statements today. The first thing I want to look at is safety within the schools. Perhaps the Minister could clarify something for me on the 40% reduction in personal protective equipment, PPE, that was talked about earlier in the year. Has that now been addressed? Is that 40% cut not going to happen? I will ask each question...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is good. No school will be without any PPE it requests. With regard to testing and tracing, will there be serial testing for all school staff this time? What improvements have been made in the school tracing since last year to ensure we can keep any outbreak that occurs contained?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is good. If somebody has a test, will the result be back within 24 hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Part of the problem we had the last time, as the Minister will recognise, is the interface between the Department of Education and the HSE and where the accountability lay in terms of information and the actions that needed to be taken. I welcome the fact that this is to be improved. Will staff who are performing intimate caring roles be given medical-grade masks now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. It has been said, and I believe it, that there is an inequality with regard to the mainstream schools with young people who have special educational needs. I see it even in my constituency in terms of one school being able to meet the needs of students with special educational needs while another is not. It is very confusing for parents. They feel a sense of injustice and inequality...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Hopefully, it will be sooner rather than later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The main issue being highlighted is that the mental health and well-being of our children and young people has been impacted. The immediate challenge for us, however, is how we ensure this impact is temporary and not permanent. While I acknowledge the Minister mentioned the €2 million, it is hugely important, therefore, that money is front-loaded into the mental health services, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Irish Language and the New Decade New Approach Agreement: Conradh na Gaeilge (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Níl ach cúpla focal Gaeilge briste agam. The wider question, and I have always asked this question, is how we have so many children going through schools here at national and second level who still do not have fluent Gaeilge at the end of 13 or 14 years of education. We need to examine that. Today's session is very useful and timely. It is timely in the sense that we discussed...

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would like the Minister to respond to those two important questions, about music and mock exams, after my contribution. There needs to be clarity there. On the issue of safety, what has the Minister done specifically to avoid a situation such as that in Claremorris Boys' National School before Christmas? She talked about autonomy. If a board of management, a principal and parents all...

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister might respond to the questions on music and mock exams, if the Minister of State does not mind. I appreciate her response.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to attach an accreditation to the ten-month SNA course launched in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11360/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the full economic costings per discipline across the third-level sector will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11113/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cross-Border Co-operation (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from his Department have met with the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland to discuss higher education provision in the north-west region as outlined in the joint communiqué from the 25th North-South Ministerial Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11475/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of graduates each year from a college (details supplied) from a professional master's degree in education in primary initial teaching education since the college was founded in 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11835/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is also in connection with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, especially in relation to a person who has been in contact with me, namely, Catherine Gallagher from Achill. She is 23 years of age and has undergone dozens of operations. She ploughed through college and has now been offered a scholarship for a PhD. She is told that if she takes up that PhD and...