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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: It is important that we know how many places were taken up last year and the courses for which there was excess demand. The pressure that students have been under was referred to earlier. The way to alleviate pressure is to make sure there are extra places in the high-demand courses and also feed that through to the colleges to ensure that if infrastructure or extra tutors are needed, they...

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: In the broader sense, when we are announcing money and doing the Estimates and so on, we need to follow through to make sure the outcomes of that make a real difference to students and the third level institutions.

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: This question is for the Minister of State. Given the revenue and surplus relating to the National Training Fund, is now not the time to invest in apprenticeships in order to increase the numbers and let apprenticeships be a driving force in the recovery after Covid? Is there anything in the Revised Estimates to deal with the huge backlog of apprentices waiting for off-the-job training?...

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: There was a backlog before Covid. However, the current backlog is extremely serious. I ask the Minister of State to do everything he can and use the excess in the National Training Fund to ensure that the more than 6,000 apprenticeships to which I refer do not have to be extended beyond four years to six years or whatever. The Minister of State will be acutely aware of the knock-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: May I bring one matter to the attention of 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 refer to the increase in places for medicine. Concern has been expressed to me by students who did their leaving certificate in 2019, one of whom achieved eight H1 grades. They feel that because of the lack of spaces, they will be at a severe disadvantage if there is points inflation this year. In light of the pandemic, demand in the public health area and our need to educate more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The EU and Irish Unity - Planning and Preparing for Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Professor Harvey and Mr. Bassett for this paper. It is enormously important and I refute some of the comments that have been made about it. There is real value in it because it raises key questions I have not seen raised anywhere else. In any papers that are written there are observations and certain editorial stuff, but there is real factual stuff here, for instance, around who...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why is the human papilloma virus, HPV, vaccine not covered under the drugs payment scheme for women who are advised to get it by their consultants or medical practitioners? The reason I ask is that the cost of the HPV vaccine is €600. Many families and women who do not qualify for a medical card because the thresholds are so low are under severe financial pressure. Forcing them to...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will initiate negotiations with the UK on a formal licence exchange agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44806/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the N26 is included in the review of Project Ireland 2040; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44807/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Development Projects (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the state aid that has been granted to Knock Airport in the past ten years in tabular form; the EU state aid rules that are currently in place for airports such as Knock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13973/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 549. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average cost to the Exchequer for each apprentice employed in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15774/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 550. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average cost for each apprentice employed in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15841/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown on a percentage basis of the prior educational attainment of apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14928/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of apprentices who secure their apprenticeship through personal connections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14929/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average age of new apprentices since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14932/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if companies are entitled to access the apprenticeship incentivisation payment in cases in which the apprentice at the time of registration was already an employee of the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14930/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and percentage of companies registering apprentices that also accessed the incentive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14931/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2021 of increasing the apprenticeship incentivisation scheme in line with that which is offered in Northern Ireland (details supplied); the effect it would have on the average cost per apprentice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15762/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and percentage of college dropouts since 2011 at third-level; the number and percentage of those in receipt of Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, support in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14933/21]