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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister has partially discussed this issue. My question is related to the link-up between the demands in the health services and higher education, higher educational professionals and the training that is necessary. As a former Minister for Health, the Minister will understand the enormous gaps that exist. Money is being wasted in places such as Achill Island, where, as the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I very much welcome this OECD report and look forward to examining it. It is crucial to our economic growth going forward. The national skills input into that will determine how we shape and create the human workforce as we go forward. We also need to be cognisant of the need to join things up. If we are encouraging lifelong education and upskilling of the workforce, we need to look at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad the focus is on PhD researchers at the moment and that there has been a realisation they are critical not only to our productivity, but to our social and economic growth now and into the future. There were reports last night that Jeffrey Sardina, a member of the national committee of the Postgraduate Workers Organisation, PWO, received documents from Revenue that indicated PhD...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the shift in Government policy in regard to investment in student accommodation. That is what we as a party have wanted for a long time. Will the Minister confirm that at the end of 2019, there were 28,414 student accommodation units registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB? However, at the of 2021 that number was down to 21,681. That was a decline of 7,000 beds....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The most important question is whether there is less or more student accommodation in the system. Sometimes from the way it is presented we give the impression that there is more but really there is less. When we look at the increase in the number of students, we have to recognise the issue that exists because this August and September will be the Minister's third year in the role. I do...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to increase the number of apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15918/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My first question relates to apprenticeships. I ask the Minister to bring us up to date on what is happening in relation to apprenticeships and the step he is taking to increase their number and to address the backlogs in the system.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for his response. In 2016 the Government set a target of 9,000 annual apprenticeship registrations by 2020 but here we are in 2023, and we still have not reached that target. The Government set a new target of 10,000 in 2020. The Minister has said that we are making progress towards that but we have not even reached the old target. Back in 2016 we did not even...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I really welcome that. If one takes the figure of 300, that is the number of apprenticeships the ESB alone does every year. The local authorities have been dragging their feet on this. We need to sit down with them, examine why that is the case and determine what are the blockages. We need to be able to facilitate the local authorities as well as giving them the responsibility for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We could talk about apprenticeships all day.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his strategy for addressing student accommodation ahead of the next academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15919/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In this question I am asking the Minister to outline the strategy for addressing student accommodation ahead of the next academic year. What is he doing to ensure that students have accommodation and will be able to attend the college or university of their choice in September or October?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Veterinary Services (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on veterinary provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15731/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student fees will be maintained at the level of €2,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15734/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his plans to ensure access to public service pensions for research staff in all higher education institutions across the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15735/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (30 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the ongoing PhD review; if he will consider bringing forward emergency measures to help PhD researchers deal with the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15733/23]

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this timely motion, which touches on a number of important issues, one of which is the lack of capacity in school transport. Across the State, students and families that had relied on school transport for years were suddenly displaced last year. The Government had no plan to increase capacity meaningfully and left children on the side of the road. We...

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this motion from the Labour Party.

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know the feeling.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Today, the Taoiseach and Government have one last chance to stop the backslapping and answer the question asked by people in Mayo and every other county who are being forced to move out of their homes this weekend and in the coming weeks, namely where do they go. Mayo is the county of Michael Davitt. How disgraceful is it that almost 100 years after his death, evictions would feature in the...