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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the current higher education metrics in the annual Revised Estimates Volume and the Public Service Performance Report to ensure the measure performance particularly in areas such as metrics on socio-economic diversity in higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31778/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he anticipates the preferred tenderers for bundle 1 of higher education private public partnerships projects will be selected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans to introduce an income-contingent maintenance support fund for higher education as outlined in the recently published economic evaluation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32435/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary question No. 431 of 2 June 2022, the intended timeframe for the construction of bundle 1 and bundle 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32436/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of €2,000 payments made for each type of apprentice under the employer grant to date; the percentage of application per apprentices registered in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32437/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: At the outset, I want to thank the Minister of State for meeting with the families who were impacted by the valproate scandal last year. Their educational needs are enormously important. They have made the Minister of State aware of the shortcomings of the stakeholders group and what needs to be done there. It is my hope that we will have an agreement on the terms of reference for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am aware that it does not fall directly within the brief of the Minister of State since the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, but I want to raise with her the issue of personal assistants in the further education system. They do a similar job to SNAs. However, their employment terms are far worse. They have no pension or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know this does not come under the remit of the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State; I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There is no impediment. Nothing would bar-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----UCD from doing the accreditation for that level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think the Minister of State has understood from everyone here today that the accreditation is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Or to delay it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I do not have any further questions. The accreditation needs to be there as soon as possible and it should have been there from the beginning. The commitments have been made by the Minister of State today on pathways, having the accreditation, widening to the rest of the country and having a review. I hope that will be a 360-degree evaluation and the families with which SNAs are working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Pike has covered my last question in his reply to Deputy O'Callaghan. Most of my questions have been covered. I thank the witnesses for their very valuable contributions. I am listening acutely to them. Are they assured by any of the things the Minister of State has said this morning? What were the positive things she has committed to or said? What most concerns the witnesses that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Lambert. Ms Galster has said that she has a special interest in autism, in particular, and that she has done a great deal of training around that. She knows that in working with children and young people with autism that there are enormous skills in some places which go above and beyond what she, I, and others who are non-autistic students would be able to do. These students...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a brief question for Ms O' Sullivan. I am very interested to hear her praise for UCD and I think that is very good. Does she have any idea of the spread across the country of the participants on that course? In terms of the delivery online, is there any impediment to learning there or would it be better - in her opinion - as a combination of blended and online?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Our guests have collectively given a really good picture of where things are at and what needs to be done and how quickly it needs to be done. I thank all of them for their contributions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (16 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of adjusting the progression criteria for the free fees initiative to allows for overlap of levels where the graduation level will amount to a progression; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31524/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new European Union undergraduate entrants into Trinity College on a full-time basis since 2006, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31096/22]