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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minister provide an update on the specific amount of capital funding allocated to the higher education institutions, HEIs, to deliver the student accommodation, as was agreed by the Cabinet this week? I understand the Minister is unlocking 667 of the over 3,000 units that are shelved. Will he confirm the money made available is €32 million and that it will provide a grant of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this approach because we have wanted to have it for so long, in the sense of there being an investment and recognising student accommodation is integral to access to third level. This is especially so for students from rural areas who cannot go to college without having accommodation. However, a decade of underinvestment in higher education has left us with this chronic lack of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I agree on the policy approach. It should have been done many years ago. However, I want to ensure all those units are affordable. I do not want X number of units to be delivered, only for many of them to be beyond the reach of students. We will be in a worse situation if we end up like that. The devil will be in the detail of the contracts and agreements signed between the HEIs and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on when the first housing units for persons with disabilities are expected to be completed under the national housing strategy for disabled people 2022-2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on engagement between his Department and Mayo County Council regarding a scheme for the remediation of the 17 social houses that have tested positive for the existence of Pyrite in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59835/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commit to associate membership of CERN; if so, if he will outline a timeframe for joining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he is taking to provide supports for part-time students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59805/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills The way in which he will address the chronic shortage of veterinary medicine places; if he will outline a timeframe for delivering additional places; if he will instruct the Higher Education Authority to include a criterion of regional balance as part of the expression of interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59807/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an estimated timeframe for the introduction of new contracts for academic staff working in technological universities in order to develop research capacity; if he will provide an update on his engagement with trade unions and other stakeholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on increasing transfer rates from FET to degree programmes; if he will outline in particular any progress made in increasing transfer rates from courses such as pre-nursing and pre-law into degree courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59809/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Production (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment If any windfall tax will be applied to electricity generation companies for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59926/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Production (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any windfall tax will be applied to the owners and operators of the Corrib gas field for 2022; if so, the estimated revenue that will be generated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59927/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (1 Dec 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with the Minister for Education on the issue of increasing the cap on primary teacher training places in public HEIs given that the Department of Education is currently in the process of determining the intake on the primary B.Ed. and PME programmes for the 2023-2024 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of accessible units built in 2022 for people with disabilities in each county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59838/22]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Most of my questions have been answered but I want to ask about school transport under Vote 26. When did the Minister say the review will be completed? In the Supplementary Estimates, €69 million is allocated for additional places in 2022, but the difficulty is that some families are still left behind. I will give an example of a family in Charlestown. They have two children, James...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know the Minister will agree that such situations are not acceptable. Do we understand from the figures that fees will be in reintroduced next year for the applications that will open in springtime? I urge the Minister to make free school transport permanent because of the economic cost for parents, but also because of climate change and the need to reduce emissions. Free school...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is an evaluation of the policy decision included as part of the review to stop free school transport? The Minister is aware of the policy changes that were made after Mary Coughlan's review in 2009 or 2010. Was an evaluation done on it and is that available? How much did we save within the Department by introducing charges and making concessionary students and eligible students and all that?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I hope it is. I will leave my questions at that.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. I will ask first about the announcement regarding investment in student accommodation. How much funding will be allocated in 2023 to unlock those student accommodation projects that have been sitting on the shelf for years?