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Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Healthcare capacity has to be included in the national risk assessment along with issues of public health. It is beyond question that, when a public health emergency hits, it is already too late. I commend those who work on the front line in that system. Prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, we had the longest waiting lists in the EU. We had a series of some of the longest and strictest...

Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not too late for the Minister to do the right thing. Over the past two years, more than 6,000 people have died with Covid in the State and 9,159 on the island. In excess of 1 million have contracted the virus. Millions more have been close contacts. Leaving certificate students and their families are not immune. They are not different. They are part of society and what society had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2019 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Chairman and the Minister of State. I am pleased to be discussing the technological universities again, as we have done so many times before. The Minister of State knows I have a particular interest in the Atlantic Technological University and I think it is a great name for it. As he is aware, it is also important, that we have a proper sustainable funding model and we will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2019 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On public private partnerships, there is concern that services around the technological universities will not be retained in public ownership. In other words, they will be in the ownership of the public private partnership. I would like to see greater evaluation of that to ensure that we are delivering value for money, but also that we are keeping higher education as a public good, which I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2019 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My question in regard to St. Angela's College arises from the press release from the Minister, Deputy Harris, on 23 November in which he stated that there are a number of issues to be resolved by the respective higher education institutes in terms of completing all of the due diligence processes and centrally by the Government in terms of the delivery of the legislation to provide for legal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for being here again this morning. What lessons have been learned from the hybrid model of last year? What were the positives and negatives of the model and have the lessons from the hybrid model fed into the work on reforming the leaving certificate? That is my first question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Where you have a hybrid model in one year and examinations only in another year, what percentage of students - we referred to grade inflation in terms of college places - are left over from the previous year? Does Mr. Tattan understand what I am saying? I mean in terms of college places.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think that it is quite a high number. I seem to have 46% in my head from previous years. The challenge is creating equality from one year to the next for access to third level. In some ways, improving the curriculum and the method of assessment is the easier task related to reform of the leaving certificate. The harder challenge is to produce a more equal outcome for the leaving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Obviously the challenge for us in all of the committee's discussions is that they will make a difference and that the changes that are suggested across the board and agreed will be implemented. From the Department's perspective, how soon could we see that being done so that we will have a different form of leaving certificate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome that because people need to see changes within the next 12 to 24 months. I also welcome the fact that the student voice appears to be having more of an impact now than heretofore. It is one of the good legacies of Covid. I hope this student voice will be heard over the coming days as well in respect of this year's leaving certificate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a number of short questions arising from the discussion. In terms of the guidance counsellors, I know our guests mentioned there will be a strategy there and that there are 900 guidance councillors already. However, it is quite obvious that number is not sufficient. We need more boots on the ground, particularly for exploring options for students around further and higher education....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that he is taking to reduce vacancy and dereliction rates in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3339/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new build social homes and new build affordable homes that were delivered in County Mayo in 2021; the targets for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3340/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available for mature students that wish to study part-time on a course that is not covered by Springboard+; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2916/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Mobility (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is currently undertaking a review of student mobility on the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3468/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (26 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Education will next meet. [2243/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (26 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from Northern Ireland who are enrolled in further education in Ireland in each year that data is available in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3736/22]