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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, and that is no good to any child. We will take up the issue with the Minister, Deputy Harris. He will be before the committee tomorrow afternoon and in the Dáil later tonight. If we get an opportunity to do that again-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This year, An Bord Pleanála has shelled out more than €1 million of taxpayers' money to developers because of the delayed decisions on controversial strategic housing developments, SHDs. This information emerged in the aftermath of revelations that the legal bills of An Bord Pleanála have more than doubled to €8 million a year arising from a litany of legally...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Today, third level students throughout the State are staging a walkout from lectures. I send solidarity and support to these students and their families. I wish to acknowledge the work done by the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, and all of the student unions. Students are weary and they are at their wits' end. This is not a decision they have taken lightly. They have been forced into...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is welcome. The Minister, Deputy Harris, will be in the Dáil to answer questions next week and I hope he will acknowledge that, because parents paying for students' rent should be entitled to the credit. Rent is rent at the end of the day. What is disappointing is we can predict accurately, based on the number of babies born today, how many students are going to need...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (13 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I listened to the Minister's reply earlier to Deputy Kerrane. I thank the community welfare officers and acknowledge the work done by them. The ones I know are certainly going above and beyond in trying to meet the needs of people who are in a very desperate situation. I welcome the measures that the Minister has outlined but I wish to know how long the recruitment process will be because...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (13 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for her response and I hope that things will be speeded up. The message that needs to go out today is that people should not wait until the very last moment before contacting the community welfare officer. They should also know that there will be some length of time to wait. What I have been finding an awful lot, even before the most immediate pressures, is that people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (13 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional resources that were put in place to deal with the surge in applications for supplementary welfare allowance and additional needs payments, given that these are being promoted as a source of additional emergency income for those with increased energy costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50716/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on reports of substantial waiting times for supplementary welfare allowance and additional needs payment applications to be processed and paid out; the current estimated processing times for an application to be processed and paid out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50717/22]

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I worked in the community and voluntary sector. This has been going on for way too long. I started working in the community and voluntary sector in 2003. Since then, we have been talking about the same thing that we are discussing now. The Minister stated that those involved are not public servants, but they serve the public so we are splitting hairs. There has been an abdication of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the European Commission definition of highspeed broadband; and the impact that this definition has on determining the intervention area for the National Broadband Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50535/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of pathways for social care students studying at a college (details supplied) into the profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50479/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €40 million to address sustainable funding for higher education as outlined in the Budget 2023 Expenditure Report is a first or full-year costing; if it is a first-year costing, and the estimated full-year costing; if this is fully separate from €37 million allocated for central pay agreement provision; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the €40 million allocated under non-core additional Covid-19 will be spent; if the €40 million is a first or full-year costing; the value in full-year costings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50481/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the €21 million allocated under non-core additional National Recovery and Resilience Plan allocation will be spent; if the €21 million is a first or full-year costing; the value in full-year costings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50482/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the €21 million allocated under non-core additional Brexit Adjustment Reserve allocation will be spent; if the €21 million is a first or full-year costing; the value in full-year costings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50483/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2023 (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in Budget 2023 the non-pay allocation is €1,607.4 million whereas this was set at €1,612.2 million in the 2022 Expenditure report; the reason this is the case given the €98 million in additional resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50536/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the reduction in the allocation of expenditure from the National Training Fund given that it is €682.5 million in 2023 expenditure report and was €716.4 million in 2022; the areas in which the reductions will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50537/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the core capital allocation is €568 million given the National Development Plan anticipated €579 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50538/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide support to higher education institutions to deliver affordable student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50539/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of apprentice in each type and phase; the total number of apprentices awaiting access to off-the-job training in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50543/22]