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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is important that organisations are not excluded on the basis that they do not have the financial capital. Will those currently employed in local employment services be affected once new contracts are in place? If a group of local employment services misses out on this contract in the tendering process, will they be protected? Will there be a transfer of undertakings for existing staff...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My question concerns the western rail corridor. Following the publication of the report by Dr. John Bradley, the Government needs to stop prevaricating and deliver on the western rail corridor as part of the national development plan. Is it in the national development plan? Does the Government recognise that it is a key piece of infrastructure for the development of the west of Ireland?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protection of grade inflation that is anticipated in 2021, if any in leaving certificate results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35408/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that quotas on primary school teacher training are applied to public institutes of higher education but not private colleges; the steps she is taking to rectify the situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35407/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the eligibility criteria in the back of education allowance and jobseeker’s allowance and payment in terms of part-time education to ensure persons on part-time courses are not excluded from both; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35410/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (6 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 75. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will be seeking additional core funding for family resource centres in budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36294/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (6 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance the institutions that are designated as publicly controlled market operators by the CSO as part of the official reporting of Ireland’s Government finance statistics and the excessive deficit procedure notification for Ireland in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36202/21]

Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with Deputies Martin Kenny and Patricia Ryan who have five minutes each. On the whole, Sinn Féin supports the Bill. It is right to create uniformity in this area and set out in clear terms the relationship between schools, parents and students. Providing a framework in the form of a charter for parents and students will surely have a positive impact on engagement...

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: While this Bill seeks a necessary extension to the duration of the CervicalCheck tribunal, we have to face the fact that, with only a single-figure number of claims, it is not working and is not fit for purpose. The Minister has heard that loud and clear. I welcome what he has said today about the consultations that will take place. He says women will have more time. Well, unfortunately,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all members of the National Training Advisory Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36718/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cybersecurity Policy (7 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount and share of the State expenditure on research and development spending in the area of cyber security since 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30808/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the holiday earnings disregard is applied to the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, for SUSI applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36806/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to know if the holiday disregard of €4,500 will be applied to the PUP payment to create equity. If students were working as they normally would, they would get disregard. I want to know before I leave here today if this disregard is going to be applied and that at a minimum €4,500 would be disregarded.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Please take it from me that the exceptional circumstances are not working. People and families who were in the same financial position last year as they are this year are being excluded by SUSI, which is unacceptable. I understand in terms of social welfare, disregards, and uniformity across the board, but we are in a global pandemic. We have made all kinds of exceptions. We have put...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Basically, the Minister needs to communicate with SUSI. People who are applying at the moment are being told that they are over the limit. They need to know. Parents and students need to plan now as to whether they can afford to go to college and continue their education. Waiting until September and hoping that everything will be okay is going to delay and clog things up. Parents and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the independent economic report on the Cassells report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37069/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When will the independent economic report on the Cassells report be published? It is widely accepted the higher education sector has been chronically underfunded since Fine Gael came to power in 2011. In the words of the Irish Universities Association, the State embarked on a sustained period of disinvestment in higher education. The European University Association's Public Funding...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad it has come back to the Minister. Maybe he will confirm when it came back to his Department. A major part of the State divestment was based on passing the costs on to students and families, as is evident from the fact we now have the highest fees in the European Union. We need a sustainable funding model, as the Minister said. The Cassells report made this clear in 2016, yet...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister knows that the higher education institutions are carrying a debt of almost €1 billion as it is, and he knows what needs to be done in human capital and everything else that is needed. Related to that, how many labs have been put in since last year? The infrastructure was proving a problem in meeting the demands of higher numbers. The London Economics review of the Augar...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of time students can expect to have on campus when they return in September 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37166/21]