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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Rose Conway-Walsh: It is, therefore, hard to compare the years in question to get an exact picture, but I would have thought that with the setting up of the new Department and the link to the CAO, there would have been a bigger increase in the number of apprenticeships. This needs to be examined to determine what else needs to be done, including by way of additional career guidance, which should be provided...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Rose Conway-Walsh: The education committee will investigate North–South student mobility. Apprenticeships need to be considered throughout right the island along with shared apprenticeships, North and South, to open up whatever opportunities we can. Some risks need to be taken with apprenticeships to embed a genuine change of culture and mindset in order that the opportunities that exist will be taken...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Rose Conway-Walsh: If the Minister of State could, that would be great. It seems from the figures he provided that 5,000 fewer students were enrolled in third level education in 2022. This is based on previous demographic trends. The figures are usually accurate. What does the Minister of State believe has caused the decline? Is it despite certain measures taken by the Government in the budget? Students...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Rose Conway-Walsh: I very much welcome that. The Minister of State mentioned expressions of interest. What is the position on veterinary? What are the terms of reference for it? There are a couple of aspects to how assessments are made by the panel. Are there panellists with appropriate, recent veterinary experience who can make the right decisions? I am genuinely concerned that when setting up another...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Rose Conway-Walsh: -----even geographically in terms of where he is situated himself. Could he explain the current position? I wrote to the Minister, Deputy Harris, about this seeking to discuss it specifically.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to be careful here and I know the Minister of State has had much the same conversations as I have. We need to get this right and we need to get the right expertise and the people who have that along with current expertise in the field of veterinary. If we do not get this right we could end up in a situation that none of us want to be in. Even if it was a case where we have to take...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Rose Conway-Walsh: That is good. It is great to see so many higher education institutions coming forward with it but getting the right fits for each discipline is hugely important.
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: At the European Council meeting the Tánaiste discussed economic resilience. That requires investing in infrastructure. Why has the Government not included the western rail corridor project in the EU TEN-T? Only projects included in the TEN-T list of projects have access to the Connecting Europe Facility, known as the CEF fund. It is up to each country to lay out its priorities for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations earlier. I listened in to them. I commend the good work being done all across County Mayo. We do have a problem, though, where there is not a growing population. There are, for example, 60 pupils in Midfield national school in Swinford. This school has been going since 1964 and there is poor infrastructure there. It has no hall of any shape...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: There are so many competing demands. There might be a situation where a school's windows desperately need to be done, the yard needs to be done, and the shelter needs to be done. There is not the room there within the summer works scheme. Is there something that can be done to uphold the rights of the children who are using those schools?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Does the Department understand that if the shelter is not there, in the context of climate, it would be very important in terms of children being kept warm. I just need to come out of this meeting with some kind of hope for these schools that they will be listened to. Mr. Loftus is right that schools, families and teachers know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I know, but the children who are there now will have children and grandchildren before we get around to doing it. I am not being obstreperous here. I just need to know for the kids who are there, right here and now, and who need something as basic as a shelter or their school yard to be done. These are the types of things that keep getting refused in the emergency scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Some are dropping through the net which will not get CLÁR, LEADER or any of those. It is the Department of Education's responsibility to ensure education is provided. My colleague, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, spoke about the importance of physical activity earlier. I ask the witnesses, coming out of the committee, to look at those schools and what can be done because it will make an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Where there are huge gaps, can the schools go back to the Department and say this is the gap in the quote? Will the Department consider those cases?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I will go back to a topic I asked about earlier. In dealing with many of my questions, the witnesses referred to the emergency works scheme and the summer works scheme. Are there caps on the amount available to a school under each of these schemes? With regard to the decision-making process, particularly for rural schools, how much weight is given to population size? Mr. Loftus spoke...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: One can see the difficulty in terms of things being population driven. How do we entice people into areas? If we have areas without schools, we are almost giving up if we just follow the population and do not do things to attract people and increase the population in those areas. I have a couple of other questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: How many national and secondary schools have those filters in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is 35 schools out of how many?