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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (4 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if support will continue to be provided through the free fees initiative and SUSI grants for students that have to repeat a year due to the impact of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12217/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (4 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider including the pandemic unemployment payment received by students within the income disregard for the SUSI grant scheme; if his Department has conducted an analysis on the impact pandemic unemployment payments will have on access to SUSI for the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12218/21]

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with Deputy Cullinane. The Minister will be aware that, until now, people with disabilities have been forced to choose between academic scholarships and disability payments, including two very impressive women from my county, Mayo. Catherine Gallagher is planning to do a PhD in political communications at Dublin City University, DCU, and Muireann Cosgrave is in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that accept a place to study medicine each year through the CAO system since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13218/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 962. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the inquiry into the historical licensing of sodium valproate which was announced in November 2020; if the terms of reference have been agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13444/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 963. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to establish a valproate stakeholder group consisting of State bodies, representative and patient groups to improve the co-ordination of risk minimisation measures associated with the ongoing use of sodium valproate in women of child-bearing age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13445/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 964. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of the community operations programme for families of children affected by sodium valproate; if funding is currently in place to ensure that the programme is made fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 966. To ask the Minister for Health the details of funding options available to persons requiring fertility treatment; if such treatment is not available on the public system under the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13459/21]

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with my colleagues and would appreciate being cut off after eight minutes. My thanks to Solidarity-People Before Profit for bringing forward this important motion. While it might contain some things that we have differences on, I wholeheartedly support the vast majority of it. The first point arises in terms of removing the barriers in place. I hear the Minister...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I confirm that I am in Leinster House. The Revised Estimate states that €308 million, or an increase of €76 million for the remainder of the academic year, as been allocated. The €332 million that was allocated before the devastating third wave, which hit us in late December and early January and continues today, was allocated before we knew how...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If I might ask the Minister, I am trying to get at the outputs and outcomes of the investment. How many outbreaks have there been in schools since the beginning of 2021 or since the schools reopened?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Basically, the Minister is saying the numbers are rising in the cohort of children who are going to school but they are not being infected within the school system. How do we know that for sure? It seems a coincidence that it happened after children went back to school. Do we know for sure that children are not being infected within the school environment? How can we tell?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a question from Deputy Ó Laoghaire for the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, relating to special education advocacy groups about staff working in special schools. They all say the progressing disability model, particularly the deployment of therapists out of special schools, is a bad idea, that it will not work, that it is unsuitable for children in special schools with complex...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister of State might keep us updated on that. Of the 1,423 new staff that were to be hired in the special needs education sector, how many of those have been hired as we speak?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If the Minister of State could update the committee on that on an ongoing basis it would be useful so that we could see where the money is going. We discussed transport earlier. Will the Minister, Deputy Foley, indicate if every child who needs it will get a seat on the school bus this year? The allocation under subhead A.11 covering grants to the education bodies working in the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and join him in commending students on the huge work they have done this year and on everything they have done to maintain safety, working with other students to support them. The figures provided indicate that the general grant to the institutes of technology and universities has been cut by 9%. Is that correct? My next question is on CAO places and the pressure on...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister is right that students and third level institutions want to know we are doing everything possible to increase the number of places. We have predicted grades again this year and we need to make as many places as possible available at third level institutions. However, what students really want is transparency around the numbers. I see Deputy Ó Laoghaire is there and may...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How many of the 5,000 places allocated last year were actually taken up or used?