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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minster set out the amount of time students can expect to spend on campus when they return in September? It is certainly welcome that third level students will be back on campus, but so far little detail has been provided. As the Minister is aware, representatives from the Irish Universities Association, the Technological Higher Education Authority and Education and Training Boards...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for his response and for the briefing he mentioned. I refer to my previous question in respect of extra lab places and being able to facilitate social distancing or whatever needs to be done there. We will all be looking forward to 19 July for this funding and otherwise. However, as the Minister is aware, funding is also very important to ensure support for well-being...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for his response. I completely understand we cannot make predictions, particularly in respect of the Delta variant and the impact it might have. However, in respect of people making plans for accommodation, and I know we have improved it somewhat during the year, I ask that we provide as much certainty as possible, notwithstanding that there will be variables. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Staff (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on the employment control framework and the increase of precarious work in higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36804/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Staff (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the Minister engaged with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on the employment control framework and the increase in precarious work in higher education? I know he recently called for a halt to precarious part-time employment in higher education but this implies that the blame lies with the colleges. In the past, most of my questions to the Minister have been dismissed on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Staff (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. I am glad that something appears to have been done. I know the Minister will accept that until the issue is addressed, the problem will continue. Under the employment control framework introduced in 2011, universities are prevented from hiring full-time staff over and above the existing numbers in most cases. One provision in the employment control...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Staff (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I welcome that but this is something to which we need to return every time we engage in here because, until such time as this is fixed, it will have an impact, and not only on lecturers. The Minister referred to PhD students, who are really and truly exploited across the board because of the way the system is set up. We have to change the system. Will the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the apprenticeship waiting lists; the number of apprentices who are waiting for off-the-job training; and the number who have been waiting for over a year. [36803/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to inquire as to the status of the apprenticeship waiting list as they are now. What is the number of apprentices who are waiting for off-the-job training and the number of apprentices who have been waiting for more than a year? In March of this year, after the beginning of the pandemic there were 6,928 apprentices on a waiting list to access off-the-job training. By May, that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is the Minister of State really telling me that the situation is worse than it was in May? We are now at the level of 10,000 apprentices waiting for phases 2, 4 and 6. I am quite shocked at that. I understand the Minister of State said that things will be fixed in the autumn, but this is like saying we will all have jam tomorrow. While I know there is not enough time here today, I would...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What are the targets for September in terms of what will be done over the summer? This week I was contacted by a young man from Mayo working as an apprentice plumber. He has not been able to access the phase 4 training in his apprenticeship. This means he will possibly be stuck on apprenticeship wages longer than the four years it should take. No other cohort of students are treated in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Irish Central Border Area Network (22 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for this engagement. As a former councillor myself, I understand the challenges and the time and labour involved in putting together the documents they have put together and doing the work they have done. This is the way forward and is one of the most practical documents I have seen for a long time. What really speaks to me is the part where they ask what could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Irish Central Border Area Network (22 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Maxwell. Perhaps he would speak to the challenges of engaging with the Protestant boys to whom he referred in the education section.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Irish Central Border Area Network (22 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is in the human capital section of the report. The reference is to the Travelling community, working class boys and males in general being under-represented in third level. What needs to be done?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of the student contribution charge in 2022 for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36802/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of medicine and nursing places that have already been filled by those that deferred and or who sat their leaving certificate in November 2020; the number of additional nursing and medicine places that will be added for Irish and EU students in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36805/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the substantial increase in on-campus accommodation costs for higher education institutes for the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36801/21]

Long-Term Residential Care: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank my colleague, Deputy Ó Murchú, for allowing me this time. The Minister of State knows about some of what happened in nursing homes last year. The reality of it has not sunk in properly with Government yet. I mention the pressure nursing homes were under when they were screaming for PPE and oxygen. That was the reality on the ground and patients continued to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (13 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 53. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision and waiting lists of homecare packages and home help hours in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37740/21]