Results 141-160 of 6,645 for speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Admissions (9 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Like the Deputy, I encourage people to look at all the pathways that are available. I am concerned about the students who are contacting me who went through all the options last year. One student, for example, got 517 points. He had to have his grades re-examined and by the time he did so he was too late for a college place this year. It is those students who worked the hardest and gave...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (9 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the current thresholds for SUSI grant eligibility are set at an appropriate level to provide real equality of access to third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22245/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Issues (9 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that students from Northern Ireland will not be requested to pay non-EU fees to study here regardless of ongoing Brexit negotiations. [22554/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (9 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on setting SUSI grant eligibility at an appropriate level to provide real equality of access to third level education. [22555/20]

Services for People with Disabilities: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Most of my contribution is confined to transport. Coming from a rural area, the Minister of State will really understand the situation with transport. I refer to the issue of multiple schools using the same transport. Parents are asking me why there are different rules for other people who are being transported than for really vulnerable children. I am really in fear of one of those...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (10 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines for student teachers for completing their placements in primary schools; if placements will go ahead in October and November 2020; if not, if the placements will be delayed until after January 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23100/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to the Exchequer if SUSI grant eligibility was calculated on gross income rather than net income if the income threshold remained at the same numerical value; the cost if SUSI grant eligibility was calculated on gross income rather than net income if the numerical value of income thresholds were increased by 10%; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are persons with severe medical condition that are in the high risk categories such as those with cystic fibrosis that are denied SUSI grants on the grounds that they are online; the steps he will take to address the situation in view of the risk to these persons from Covid-19 and the fact...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 40. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols being put in place in order that patients may be admitted directly to Belmullet community hospital having full regard for Covid-19 screening prior to admission in view of the fact they have to be sent to the accident and emergency department of Mayo University Hospital before they can be transferred to Belmullet; and if he will make a statement...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I send my best wishes to the Minister for Health and thank the Minister of State for stepping in this evening. My question is about Belmullet hospital, which serves almost 10,000 people. I want the Minister of State to explain to me the logic of refusing direct referrals from GPs in the area. Patients are being asked to travel 100 miles to 150 miles in a round trip to stay a night in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I do not accept that. Why are we sending somebody on a trip of 100 miles or 150 miles to an acute hospital before sending that person back? Covid-19 was in Mayo University Hospital as well. Yesterday we had the example of a 95-year-old man who could have been catheterised by a GP and admitted to Belmullet hospital in his local area but instead he was forced to go to Mayo University...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State but I still do not believe this is not being used as an excuse. We have excellent staff in Belmullet hospital and it has the required facilities. We needed some minor works done and it has taken over a year to recruit staff for that. There is a line of matters that are unacceptable. Why is the eye clinic finished at Belmullet and what excuse is there for it?...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 771. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to assess the current restrictions on partners being present during the entirety of childbirth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23886/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 77. To ask the Minister for Health if he will liaise with the HSE to ensure flexibility for the procurement of catheters from a company (details supplied) as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23699/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Development (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to publish the review conducted in 2019 of the European regional development funding in Ireland known as the Crowe review; his position on the management of the funds as to whether he plans centralising European regional development funds in a Department or agency and removing the management authority role from the regional...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaelcholáistí Issues (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 320. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she views certain conditions of the stabilisation package for Gaeltacht Irish colleges as contradicting the stated initiative, specifically plans to deduct from the per capita payment students who transferred to 2021 and students who transferred onto online courses in addition to boarding accommodation only receiving 50% of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Residential Tenancies Board has a role to play in helping students and their families attempting to receive refunds from student accommodation providers for the unused months of lockdown; the avenues available to students and parents in such a situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23987/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which secondary school transport for special needs schools will be delivered specifically in terms of face coverings, social distancing, mixing of different isolation groups and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23924/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to take action to assist students and their families that are trying to receive refunds for rent paid for student accommodation that was not used from mid-March 2020 due to the lockdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23986/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (15 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will share the legal advice he has received that has led to him deciding not to ring-fence places for CAO applicants who sat the leaving certificate before 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23498/20]