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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: 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?

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: In terms of the different funding streams that were available to schools, do we know at this moment how many schools have these filters in place? If we were to have a Covid outbreak again or some other development next winter, how many schools would be in a better situation than they were during the pandemic in terms of keeping windows and doors open and all of those things?

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 understand that. However, has the Department measured this in terms of where matters stand? Does Mr. Dolan know what I am trying to get at?

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: This is a very important question. If we do not measure things as we go along, we do not know what to do in order to plan. We need to plan for what might happen in the context of future pandemics. This is a very basic health-and-safety issue within schools. We need to work collectively to address it.

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: Yes, but we need to match up the two, obviously, to make sure we are not just looking at those things and have the solutions in place. While we have the time, we should use it wisely.

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 am surprised the figure is so low. We need to look at why that is the case. Was the scheme too bureaucratic or were there other things at play? That is something that might be worth another look, in terms of why that figure is so low.