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Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 10: In page 15, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(b) to protect and enhance the public nature of the higher education system;”. This is about protecting the public nature of higher education, which we have often spoken about. The principle behind this amendment is the most important point that we would like reflected in the Bill....

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I support these amendments and they provide for flexibility for an institute of technology or a college to join an established TU. It is important that all colleges and institutes of technology have a pathway to be included in the TUs. I am mindful of St. Angela's College as well as it is in my geographical area.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is vitally important that the HEA and the higher education sector have a clear role in taking climate change and biodiversity action. I recognise the progress that has been made in amendment No. 7, as well as in the other amendment, and as such I will not be pressing our amendment.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My colleague will take the amendment as Gaeilge.

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this opportunity to discuss insurance reform again. The cost of living has spiked as a result of high energy prices and supply chain issues, but many have been struggling under the high costs long before the recent wave of inflation. The Minister of State will be aware of all the times we discussed this in the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will discuss the effect that increasing liability insurance premiums are having on sports and cultural organisations as well as adventure centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32269/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to schedule an update of the review of participation in, and cost of, apprenticeships published in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32438/22]

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.