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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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget allocation for the National Apprentice Office for 2022; the total number of employees currently; the anticipated number of employees when the Office is fully set up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31097/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices working across the public sector; what percentage this represents out of the total number of registered apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31098/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices working across commercial and non-commercial semi-State companies; the percentage this has on the total number of registered apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31099/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices employed at each semi-State organisations in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31100/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer of increasing the SUSI fee cover for post-graduate student to cover the full cost of fees for eligible students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31260/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has sought a report from the new Student Grant Appeals Board since coming into office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31261/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an oversight agreement has been put in place between his Department and the Student Grants Appeals Board in accordance with the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016; if not, if any exemption has been sought from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31262/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he plans to publish the National Training Fund expenditure report for 2020; if there has been a delay to the usual publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31263/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated to each higher education institution through the access premium weighting as part of core funding for each year since 2006, in tabular form; and the value as a percentage of the overall core funding to HEIs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31264/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (15 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated to each higher education institution to support research as part of core funding for each year since 2006, in tabular form; and the value as a percentage of the overall core funding to HEIs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31265/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of all public transport connection to Ireland West Airport, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29352/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Visa Applications (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 734. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the indicated processing times for fully completed English language long-stay study visas applications submitted to the Irish visa office in each embassy in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30161/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (14 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated increase in the number of SUSI recipients in the 2022-2023 academic year due to the planned increase in income thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28899/22]