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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he or another Minister or Minister of State from the Department of Education last met with the Student Grants Appeals Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47629/21]

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I acknowledge and thank People Before Profit for bringing forward this important motion. Like my colleagues, I am gravely concerned by the impact of the rising cost of energy. Fuel poverty has been talked about for years and, sadly, it is becoming more and more common. At the end of 2020, Ireland had the fourth highest electricity prices in the EU and the seventh highest gas prices....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the income threshold for the fuel allowance for persons with disabilities can be raised in order to reflect the additional cost of living with a disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48671/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the EU directive or regulation on public procurement that requires the dismantling of the current local employment services system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48670/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Third Level Admissions (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the barriers faced by persons within the naturalisation process in accessing further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48669/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses. I listened intently last week and this to the submissions. As I see it, this is probably the biggest change management project we have undergone for decades. I note the differences in approach, particularly where Mr. Gillespie said we need evolution rather than revolution, while Ms Neville said we need radical change. I come down on Ms Neville's side because I think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, and it must be targeted to the right place and prioritised. We cannot allow what is happening with career guidance to continue. People are not fulfilling their potential because they do not have the right career guidance. We can have all the apprenticeship programmes we want, along with all the other alternatives, but it will not matter if there is appropriate career guidance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Community Foundation for Ireland (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I am very familiar with the work of the Community Foundation for Ireland and we have done some projects in Mayo with it, as well as some cross-Border projects. It has been a while now. Working in community development, sometimes with the application for funding there is much bureaucracy but I have always found the Community Foundation for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Community Foundation for Ireland (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. I thank the witnesses.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken to address the student accommodation crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49752/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: First, I want to warmly congratulate the Minister and his wife, Caoimhe, on the birth of your son, Cillian. As the mother of two boys, I know the great joy that can bring and I wish you all well. The student accommodation emergency is now at crisis point. I am being contacted by students and families with real-life stories of travelling up to seven hours a day to attend college because...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I think Owen Keegan’s comments were more than a lack of understanding. I think it was absolute contempt for the students and for the situation they are in. I hope the Minister will join with me in asking for his resignation. I am going to join students today when they are demonstrating at 1 p.m. outside Dublin City Council to make their feelings known on this....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are in the middle of an emergency and a crisis. I appreciate that the Minister says those things will be done. However, we had a chance to stop the conversion of student accommodation in 2016 and the Government did not do that. Those in the Government need to have a bit of humility, hold up their hands and say, “We did not act although we could have seen this coming as we knew we...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that many third-level students remain studying predominantly online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49753/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why is there such wide variation in the amount of on-campus time that students get in different colleges and universities? Students are coming back to me who say they are paying full fees, have paid for their accommodation up-front and were promised an experience by the Minister, and now find that they have as little as one to three hours on campus in a week, even for study time. This has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think we have a problem and I am not sure the Minister recognises it. I ask him to re-examine this matter on the basis of the correspondence I am getting from students and parents. I have been contacted by a mother in Ballybunion who has one student in first year instrument engineering and another in third year biomedical engineering. Both are paying full fees of €6,000, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am very concerned about students' mental health and well-being. What is coming back to me is that many of them feel they have been misled and are disappointed, as are their parents and families. I ask the Minister to send a communication to all the third level institutions to ask them to do more and to have another look at this because it is an issue. I would not bring it to him before...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad we are discussing this topic, about which the Minister has heard me contribute on many times previously, because one of the greatest tragedies is what we lose out on when we do not invest properly in young people with disabilities. I am glad the Minister referred to the Minister of State with responsibility for special education, Deputy Madigan. I welcome this initiative and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (12 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 545 of 28 September 2021, if he will provide further detail and an explanation for the increase in the number of cases of overpayments discovered under the reason, information omitted from application; the breakdown of the type of information omitted; the number of discoveries of information omitted from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (12 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 545 of 28 of September 2021, if he will provide further detail and an explanation for the increase in the number of cases of overpayments discovered under the reason eligibility; the breakdown of the reasons students were deemed ineligible in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....