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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.

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: Absolutely, but if Mr. Loftus went to a school in the west, he would know that opening windows is not always an option.

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 very good.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My question relates to the sodium valproate inquiry. The Minister knows it is more than two years since that was promised by the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, in the House. The officials from the Department have told Organisation Anticonvulsant Syndromes Ireland, or OACS Ireland, and Epilepsy Ireland that the draft terms of reference for this inquiry were to go to Cabinet before...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Question No. 158 is on retrospectiveness. I very much welcomed the Minister when he said retrospectiveness would be considered in the building defects redress scheme, as did the people in Mayo and Donegal. I want to tease that out further with the Minister. He said earlier that it was provided the work was certified. Will he better explain what we need to do? We need to give homeowners,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for his clarifications around retrospectiveness. We will work with him to get that right. One thing I want to flag is that it would be grossly unjust if there were to be a time limit or an arbitrary cut-off point on that. Once the work can be certified and assessed in advance, testing has occurred and you have the engineer's report, there should be no time limit on it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the recently announced Celtic tiger building defects redress scheme will apply retrospectively; if the same terms will be extended to homeowners in County Mayo and other counties effected by mica and pyrite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3718/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new-build social homes that were delivered in 2022 in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3719/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ukraine War (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the challenges Ukrainian refugees are experiencing in accessing car insurance due to the non-recognition of previous driving experience and claims history; the steps he is taking to ensure equitable access to car insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3827/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Sir John Major (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome Sir John. At the time of his prime ministership, I lived in London. I want to look at the Good Friday Agreement in terms of it being a living document, as we are the implementation committee of it. Obviously, the British and Irish Governments are co-guarantors of that agreement. The Good Friday Agreement and the 2003 joint declaration in St. Andrews, and the New Decade, New...