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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (18 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will publish the economic evaluation of the Cassells report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56615/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (18 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of part-time students in public higher education institutes not including non-EU international students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56616/21]

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We would not be here this evening if the Minister had used the findings of the OAK consultation with the survivors of the mother and baby homes. Nobody wants to be here, at least of all the people who are watching in tonight. The survivors do not want to be watching this. I send them our solidarity. I thank all of those who have engaged with Deputies across the House and told us their...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am asking this question on behalf of my party colleague, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, who has been unavoidably detained tonight. We have known for some time now that Covid-19 is an airborne virus and that ventilation, including air filtration, has a key role to play in protecting students and staff in our schools. Sinn Féin has been calling for adequate ventilation measures for the guts...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We all want schools to be open and functioning well but we cannot pretend Covid-19 is not in our schools. Too often the Department seems to minimise these issues. According to a principal in Mayo, 15% of one school's students are at home with Covid-19. If education remaining open is as important as we say it is, surely we should be throwing the kitchen sink at it. While I acknowledge the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Principals are already at the end of their tether and now it seems responsibility for contact tracing will fall to them and to parents. I urge the Minister to ask the HSE to ensure public health teams have a significant role in contact tracing in our schools. We need school-specific contact tracing. Many school staff are concerned by the details of the antigen testing plan. They are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The education system is at crisis point and many schools are struggling to stay afloat. School leaders are working up to midnight every night trying to source substitute teachers for their schools for the next day. Many of these positions remain unfilled and many classes end up with no teacher to take them. According to an INTO survey, nearly one third of substitution days were not...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome all of the measures. Some effort has been made to tackle substitution by deploying student teachers, albeit that we have been calling for this for some time. However, it is only part of the solution. Much more can be done, and every school must have access to a substitution panel. This is an emergency, and we need all hands on deck. Student teachers alone will not solve this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister needs to safeguard special educational teaching. Will the Minister reverse the decision to remove banked special education hours - "Yes" or "No"? I go back to my previous question. Does the Minister think there is no need for school-specific contact tracing? What happens with the time delay in having antigen tests delivered to schools? Teachers and parents need more clarity...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Facilities (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us the importance of having adequate facilities, crucially space, in our schools. In September 2018 a significant monetary commitment was made to ensure all secondary schools would have access to physical education, PE, facilities. This was reiterated in the national development plan last month. However, schools are not seeing any changes, with some waiting...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Facilities (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister but many schools throughout the country have no access to school hall facilities at all. Many talented students want to study leaving certificate PE but cannot access it as their school does not have the facilities. This is not good enough. It creates a real inequality. What will the Minister do to ensure all students who wish to study PE at leaving certificate level...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Facilities (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The challenge is that schools are obviously operating in real time. We must allow enough flexibility for the older schools to be able to have these facilities as well. Otherwise we are creating a real inequality. We must work in real time and in the here and now, in the same way as we do in terms of ventilation, having clean air in schools and all of those things. The problem in general...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise the issue of Covid measures in education settings. First, while I welcome the Minister for Education's announcement regarding substitute teachers, we are 16 school days away from Christmas when schools will be breaking up anyway. We need to know the timelines in terms of substitute teachers. Can teachers expect substitute teachers to be available from Monday of next week? We need...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will approve the intake numbers into both the bachelor of education and professional master of education for the next academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57227/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to stop the spread of Covid-19 in schools and to protect staff, students and the wider community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57226/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rail-based proposals included in the published draft as part of the consultation process on Connecting Ireland being run by the NTA in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56980/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who completed an apprenticeship and became fully qualified tradespersons in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56974/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a borrowing framework for the technological universities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56975/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider continuing to extend the SUSI maintenance grant to persons being transferred from the jobseeker's transition payment to the back to education allowance as a result their child turning 14 years of age and instead continue to provide a maintenance grant even though typically the back to education allowance would not be a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (23 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of parents who lose the SUSI maintenance grant as a result of being transferred from the jobseeker's transition payment to the back to education allowance due to their child turning 14 years of age; if his Department has conducted research into the effect this has or will have on the completion rate of education courses; and if he...