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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Earlier this week the Irish Pharmacy Union, IPU, warned that a growing shortage of pharmacists is fast becoming a major threat to community healthcare. It now takes an average of five months to fill a vacant position in pharmacies. It called on the Government to increase the number of third level places. It referred to the chronic lack of university places. It is the same with regard to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the disparity in funding between traditional universities and technological universities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25392/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for addressing the funding gap of €307 million in higher education outlined in the recently publish future funding proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25390/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that he will ensure that any increase in funding to the higher education sector is translated into better employment conditions for the many workers in the sector in precarious employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25394/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of on-campus student accommodation or accommodation owned by institutes of higher education that have been added to the system in the past two years; the steps being taken to increase the number on campus institution owned accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25391/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to meet the skill shortage in construction in order to meet housing and retrofit targets given the skills shortages reported in the media to be in excess of 50,000 by 2030 making particular reference to any plans to support apprentices currently in the system through the cost of living crisis to ensure they can become...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will speak first and we will see how we go. I thank all the witnesses for being before the committee. It is a really interesting discussion. I also thank them for their opening statement and all the materials they sent us. It will take a while to read them all. It was interesting to hear them detail the work that goes on in the interface with young people that is youth-led. A large...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is community development. We have lots of similar projects here. Are there exchanges between North and South? Will the witnesses give some examples of successful exchanges?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How do we than develop that or ensure it evolves through multi-annual funding so there can be a more strategic approach to it? This is so it is not just a one-off day but programmes of events where people learn about each other, learn from each other and understand each other better. I have seen programmes where we have had loyalist students and students from republican areas here. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is very interesting. It is interesting how young people can influence the adults in their household for positive change. How do the groups measure increased educational attainment and employability? I know much of that work is very difficult to measure because a lot of it qualitative rather than quantitative. How do they measure attainment and people who go on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will ask about apprenticeships because we have been looking at them here. We want to encourage more people into apprenticeships, not least because we have considerable challenges in workforce planning. We are looking at apprenticeship models across the island. Is it feasible for somebody to start an apprenticeship in one area and complete it in another?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are great job opportunities in apprenticeships. We are compiling a report on student mobility. We know that even in terms of education, if people can stay in there own communities or are as connected as possible to them, they are likely to bring about positive change. It has an impact. I look forward to visiting Strive with the committee. It is a very good suggestion by the Chair....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (18 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of European Union undergraduate enrolments in medicine in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25069/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (18 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the courses that have been forced to use random allocation to allocate places in 2021; the number of additional places that will be added to each course in the 2022-2023 academic year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25070/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will publish the SOLAS report on the skilll needs of the construction sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25071/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices on each programme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25072/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the target number of apprenticeship registrations for 2023; the targeted total apprenticeship population in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25073/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Policy Issues for Carers: Family Carers Ireland (18 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Thank you, Chairman, for letting me contribute as I am not a permanent member of this committee. However, I particularly wanted to attend the meeting this morning to hear the proceedings. I am very glad I did. I am glad on two fronts. The testimony from Mr. Douglas, Ms Ryan and Ms Budayova was extremely powerful. I am reminded of when I was a member of the finance committee and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will engage with TUS and RSS around expanding and improving the service as well as addressing outstanding pay and condition claims by the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24653/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that anyone who had their disability allowance removed because they were awarded a PhD scholarship prior to 1 September 2020 will be entitled to re-apply for disability allowance with payments backdated to 1 September 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24652/22]