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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. We hear them time and time again. We cannot hear them often enough but very little happens in terms of implementation. It is frustrating from our point of view so it must be frustrating from the witnesses' point of view when they see so little movement yet they present all the solutions here today. We do not need enormous reports or pilot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The provision in itself creates anxiety. What impact are the challenges of student accommodation and the financial pressures having on mental health? Will Ms Hughes describe that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I am very concerned about students who are going directly into the leaving certificate cycle without knowing what their results are, which has an impact in terms of choices. As has been said, we obviously have an ongoing issue in terms of late results, which reduces students' ability to take up opportunities across the island and in Britain....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: One of the biggest problems we have in terms of having all-island student mobility is the equivalence of the results but also not getting the results on time. What efforts have been made in recent years to have the results provided in a more timely manner, or are we always stuck with 15 August or around that time in terms of leaving certificate results?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, but it is a problem and a challenge we need to sort out together. Are the witnesses looking at any way the results can be brought forward so we do not have to wait until after others have released their results?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If we had enough markers in the system, and had the supply side sorted out, would it be achievable that we could have results earlier.than normal in this State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I get all that and I have a very limited amount of time. When did the Department start recruiting for examiners last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the commission started recruiting for next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay, so that should solve the problem for next year and we will have enough markers in terms of early recruitment and the incentives that are offered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Have we measured at all what impact the introduction of the digital measures has had ?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is the future. Maybe that will address some of the other problems I was talking about. It has been identified as an issue right across the third level sector in terms of the accessibility of opportunities across the island. I would very much like if that could be looked at as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Who is accountable for pulling that all together to make sure it is solved?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (20 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 82. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the planned Ballyhaunis primary care centre which had a scheduled operational date of Q4 in 2021, but which continues to be on hold as of 12 October 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52467/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Bertie Ahern (20 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Ahern for being here. I also wish to acknowledge his contribution to the Good Friday Agreement and as he recognised, the contribution of everybody involved. It is a good opportunity for us today to look at this. One thing struck me earlier this morning in Glencree, when we were talking to the Portuguese President. He made the point that peace is always a process and this is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Bertie Ahern (20 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why does Mr. Ahern think some people are so threatened by other people having equal rights?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Bertie Ahern (20 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yet we do not see student mobility. In fact, it has decreased or remained the same in the last quarter of a century. That is the missing piece, if you like.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Bertie Ahern (20 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are trying to.

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This legislation aims to improve the accountability - perhaps I should say it will "introduce" accountability - of senior executives in the banking, insurance and wider financial sector and should ultimately protect customers and even the wider economy, which can suffer when the financial sector is left unregulated. This legislation, as has been said, is sorely needed and well overdue. ...