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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do not worry.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to recognise that grade inflation is only part of the story. The fact that CAO points are going up is also about how many places are available. Every year more students are sitting the leaving certificate, but as the Minister has admitted so many times, third-level education is not adequately funded. He must take responsibility for that. His party has been in government since...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----the in-demand courses or the stress of leaving certificate students. That needs to be faced up to. It is important that we admit that the skill needs in our society are not being met in a number of vital areas, particularly healthcare and construction. There is a shortage of dentists, nurses, mental health professionals, as well as quantity surveyors, engineers, architects and many...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister has a responsibility to ensure that people are being trained to have the skills that our society needs. It is not simply about students getting onto the courses that they want; it is about the proper planning for the skills that we need in the future. Almost 4,000 students enrol in pre-nursing courses. Fewer than 5% of them go on to further education to get nursing degrees...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cause of the 17% increase in apprentices waiting to access off-the-job training in the past two months, which has brought the total back up to half of all craft apprentices currently on waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6458/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Too many apprentices have been failed throughout the pandemic. They were unable to access the offsite training they needed to complete or advance their apprenticeships and become the qualified tradespeople we sorely need. It is truly alarming that there has been a 17% increase in apprentices waiting to access off-the-job training in the past two months, with figures back up to just under...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. On the phases, in September, we had 1,000 in phase 6 and 2,000 in phase 4, but the vast majority - 7,000 - were in phase 2 at that time. In one sense, when the Minister of State gives the figures and says that phases 4 and 6 will be cleared by April, I obviously welcome that, but the vast majority are in phase 2. We need to be careful of that. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are 500-odd fewer apprentices who became qualified tradespeople in 2021 than in 2020, despite the reopening in September. I want to know when the waiting lists will be cleared and the apprentices will be able to complete the training in the allocated four years, like every other student? The people with the skills we need to meet housing and retrofit targets need to be valued and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will bring forward a plan to reduce student fees for third level students; if this will be in place for the next academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6450/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are facing a crisis in the cost of living and students and families have to pay the highest fees in the EU. As a means of taking the pressure off students and their parents, will the Minister and the Department reduce fees as part of a sustainable funding model for third level education? I am also conscious of the fact that they need help now so I again call on the Minister to increase...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We have to be conscious of families who are really struggling at this stage, and of students who, because they cannot get accommodation even at a very high price, are driving long distances and of the extra cost that is putting on students. In addition, it is time for a new accommodation strategy because the cost of accommodation is prohibiting students from attending and participating in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister should not worry. He should concentrate of the students down here-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----where he has a mandate.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The difference between Sinn Féin and this Government is that we listen to students and to what they want. The Minister knows that the only reason the fees in the North are not £9,250 as they are in England is that Sinn Féin in is government in the North as well. The Minister twisting his play of words is not fooling anybody.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not; it is a truthful answer. I want fees here to be reduced. I do not want the highest fees in the EU; that is not a label we want in this State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We must work together to make sure they are reduced. The Minister said that some people do not pay fees. Yes, many do not. However, we see the people who are working day and night, the people who are excluded, locked out and not entitled to anything because they are just above the thresholds. We must help those students. We must give those students and their families the opportunities...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Not at all.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We do not have control of those finances.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister knows we do not control those finances.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister should speak to British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.