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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (31 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that his Department has no plans to provide phase four or phase six apprentice training during the summer of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27954/22]

Passport Services: Statements (26 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this subject. All of our offices are inundated with people who are desperate because of the disappointment of their children and their financial losses. When they contact their transport providers, be those airlines or however they are travelling, they are not refunded anything. People are losing thousands of euro because of chaos in the passport...

Passport Services: Statements (26 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have dealt with many cases involving issues with photographs. In fact, my own passport was one. Are proper instructions being given? Are we communicating properly to the chemists and others who are appointed to take the photographs? Many practical measures could be taken within the system to speed the process up, but there needs to be urgency and the staff who have been recruited...

Irish Apprenticeship System: Statements (26 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with my colleague, Deputy O'Reilly. I welcome this chance to debate apprenticeships, but the picture the Minister of State presents covers up what the reality is for too many apprentices who are struggling in the current system. In the course of the next eight to ten minutes, I will tell him about some of the feedback we have received from them. The Government is in denial...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 34. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the capital investment plans for the community hospitals in Belmullet, and the district hospitals in Swinford and Ballina in order to take pressure off Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26945/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 54. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Minister for Further and Higher Education to identify the number of places that are required to adequately meet the workforce needs of the healthcare system; the key professions and corresponding courses that need to be expanded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26944/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (26 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 150. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to bring his revised CAP strategic plan before the Houses of the Oireachtas for scrutiny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26947/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Programme (26 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to legislate for an office of transparency and fairness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26946/22]

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I too want to send my solidarity to the Fullerton family. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue here today, on the protocol, on legacy issues and the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. It is important to name exactly what is happening here. The British Government is attempting unilaterally to smash an international legally binding agreement. The Good Friday Agreement...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise the issue of valproate. Hundreds of families across this State have been impacted. Children have been born with disabilities as a result of valproate. It is not confined to this State but it is also in Britain and France. The Minister promised an inquiry in December 2020. We are still awaiting its terms of reference. The financial and other supports promised to families have not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of apprentices that are allocated a training place that is at an education institute that is not the closest training location to where they live; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26790/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average distance travelled by apprentices to attend off-the-job training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26791/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (25 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 19 May 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of beds that are being delivered and underway per institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26810/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an apprentice who is employed by a company registered in the State can work cross-border with the same company in the North of Ireland without repercussions in terms of their apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25839/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer of providing equal funding per student to both traditional and technological universities in order to end the situation of a 60:40 split in core funding through an increased allocation to the technological sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25874/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Visas (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with the Minister for Justice in relation to the situation in which language students on stamp 2 visas are being forced to leave the State at the end of May 2022 after two years even if they have to return for a post-graduate course in September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26053/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 615 of 10 May 2022, if he will outline which section of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2022 as amended that will further the provision of Technical University borrowing and or deliver student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26055/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, recipients in the academic year 2021-2022; and the total number of full-time students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26056/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details on plans to provide summer off-site training to address the backlog of 8,208 apprentices that each education institute will provide summer provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26057/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pay and conditions of personal assistants working in further education colleges; the starting salary for personal assistants; if they are on full-time, permanent contracts; if they need to access social welfare during the holidays; the steps that he is taking to improve the pay and conditions of personal assistants who work in further...