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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
The Proposal Initiative: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will make a final point because I want Mr. McCann to have time to come back in answer to Mr. Maskey's question. There is a whole industry which has been manufactured of observers and spectators but I want to wholeheartedly commend the people on the ground who are trying to do their very best. They are the ones who never get the recognition in the media or in all of the forums. Many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
The Proposal Initiative: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to briefly expand on the proposition in the proposal about the citizens' assembly. That has been well discussed previously. The architecture already exists for a citizens' assembly. We have had very successful citizens' assemblies here. Is there any impediment that would stop the Government calling a citizens' assembly at any time? I think that is the way to have an inclusive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Special Needs Education: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank all the contributors. I am a long-time admirer of all of the work done by AsIAm, Down Syndrome Ireland, Inclusion Ireland and the Ombudsman for Children's office. I have a particular interest in autism. A child who was born when the EPSEN Act came into force will be 17 years of age now. My God, that is an absolute disgrace. That really speaks for itself and to the fact that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Special Needs Education: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have found this discussion very useful but its usefulness needs to be transformed into action, specifically in the context of what we do from here on in. From listening to the witnesses and from my dealings with people trying to access education, there is in-built protectionism in the system that supports the status quo. It will take a collaborative and concentrated effort to break it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Special Needs Education: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Harris.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver lessons will resume for essential workers in need of acquiring a driver licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19003/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 489. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost to the Exchequer of the tax relief for tuition fees for private colleges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18854/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support the request submitted to his Department for additional funding to complete the design and construction a project (details supplied); the amount that each household will be expected to pay in order to receive a water connection under the scheme; if this payment will be expedited in advance; the legal...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a community water scheme (details supplied) that received grant approval in June 2020 has been informed that it now has to find an additional nine connections or €10,411.75; the reason these charges were not included in the initial approval; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 931. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of newly-registered primary school teachers with the Teaching Council who received their teaching qualification from a college (details supplied) since 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18302/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 979. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new primary teachers registered with the Teaching Council in each of the years since 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18825/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if invalidity and blind pensions are lost if persons with disabilities take up academic scholarships; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18283/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Foster Care (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1244. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the draft national standards for children's social services once approved will replace the existing National Standards for Foster Care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19922/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student that received a higher CAO offer in November 2020 after taking up a third-level course will be expected to pay first-year student contribution charges for both the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years; the number of students it is anticipated will be impacted; the estimated cost to the Exchequer to waive the student...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of publicly funded research being produced which is open access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18375/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure used to appoint the independent programme executive director for the TUSEI project; the salary associated with and duration of the contract; if the appointment of an independent programme executive director was requested by institutes of technology within the consortia; if not, if it was an initiative of his Department; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if technological university consortia other than TUSEI have had or will have an independent programme executive director appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18637/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students studying at the Mayo campus of GMIT since 2005, by course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18638/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average time an apprentice is out of education and or unemployed before taking up an apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18823/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (21 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 1 April 2021, the subjects that have intake limits or quotas issued from his or any other Department such as in the case of primary teachers and the Department of Education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18824/21]