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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It does, in part. I want to ask Ms McAlea about her model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will come in again on the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No. I will leave it because most of the things have been covered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: May I make a suggestion? I do not know if the committee visited Moyross previously. It would be important for the committee - I know we have a sizeable work plan - to visit Moyross in order to see the model working and to discover where it is going to next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank all the witnesses for their contributions. There is real value in these contributions. We should use them for all the witnesses we have before us in the future to test the answers and to generate our questions from what they have contributed today. I thank them for that because, without having that in the report we will do, it will be very lopsided. I hear what the witnesses say,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Did that add to your enjoyment of learning? Did you start to enjoy learning when you went to the life centre? Was that the difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If schools were to adopt the approaches and the empathy shown in the life centre, that would make a difference to students and young people across the board. Is that what you are saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Thank you for that. I congratulate Ryan on studying music. Did he always have an interest in music?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Where are you now? What college-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Very good. Is there a difference from your experience in the supports available at secondary level and then at third level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The stigma you might have felt at second level is not there at third level, in his experience.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Good. I wish to ask another question. I am not sure who said this because I was so engrossed in what was being said I was not looking, but it was about physical education in secondary school and primary schools. I have always thought it unhealthy to expect students to sit all day in a classroom, go home, have a bite to eat and then study again for a number of hours. Do we need to look at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Thank you for that. I want to give the others a chance to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will leave it at that rather than opening anything up. I thank all the witnesses for their contributions. Even the things we have not got to have been noted and will be on public record. We will come back to them in other forums.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (24 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State and will follow up with her.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (24 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take action to ensure that ##children with Down's syndrome in County Mayo have access to a school and supports in their local schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58439/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (24 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The battle for the right to an education for children with special educational needs has been a very long one. The €2 billion which has been provided now is very welcome. This is why it is very difficult to accept that there are still some children who are not getting their education. I am thinking in particular of a 13-year-old boy in Mayo, about whom I have written to the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (24 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will set the intake cap for primary teacher training courses in public universities; if she will consider raising the cap to allow more students to take a public route into the profession; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58438/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to any issue with persons who have been accepted on to the defective concrete blocks grant scheme being unable to remortgage their home to help fund the repairs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58549/22]