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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (4 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance if accessing research support funding from Enterprise Ireland, IDA, Disruptive Technologies Fund or any other Government programme that financially supports research and development in the private sector impacts a company’s ability to access the research and development tax relief in the form of a payable credit; if in relation to the R&D...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (4 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage and total number of both craft and consortia-led apprentices that will access off-the-job training in 2022 and the anticipated figures for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22272/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (4 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 570. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding allocated from the Exchequer to the Marine Institute in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22273/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: All right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I very much welcome this opportunity to discuss these issues with the Taoiseach. This is one of the most positive engagements I have had since I entered the Dáil in the sense of the possibilities and opportunities that have opened up and been presented to us. It is very clear that we are all on the same page in respect of where we need to go and what we need to do. I acknowledge all...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (28 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider providing a tax exemption for apprenticeship allowances during participants' off-site training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21407/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (28 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will conclude the review into providing agricultural contractors with a similar status to farmers regarding the carbon tax on green diesel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21406/22]

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the opportunity to speak again in opposition to the carbon tax and the turf ban. It is truly hard to fathom why the Government remains so wedded to this idea. We were told originally that this tax was a revenue-raising measure and intended to provide an incentive for people to move away from fossil fuels but incentives only work where alternatives are in place. This argument has...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 84: In page 33, to delete lines 30 to 34 and substitute the following: “35. (1) An tÚdarás shall prepare a performance framework for the higher education and research system (in this section referred to as a “performance framework”) at intervals of not less that once every 5 years and may publish the performance framework in such manner...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will withdraw amendment No. 84 on the basis that its provisions are included in the Minister's amendment.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The differentiation of functions is vital. It is an important objective for the success of our higher education sector. We need to do more in this regard, including through reform of the funding model, but we certainly welcome the inclusion of this provision.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I support the amendment for the same reason, that is, the need to deepen the engagement and reshape the manner of the engagement to one of partnership. The higher education sector is not being dealt with in such a way that reflects the partnership that exists, so I feel that the word "partnership" is a better fit for what we are trying to achieve.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Likewise, I support the withdrawal of the amendment on the basis that we will see what the Minister comes up with.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Likewise, I see that the Minister has tabled a similar amendment below. On that basis I support the withdrawal of the amendment.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is clear from section 126 that the HEA may issue guidelines, codes and policies concerning any matter referred to in this Act or any other enactment and the implementation of any policy or objective of the Minister or the Government. In effect, this means policies and objectives of the Minister and the Government become legally enforceable without being enacted in the form of legislation....

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We will withdraw the amendment but reserve the right to bring it back on Report Stage on that basis.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will publish the 2022 Research and Development Tax Credit Statistics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer on an annual basis of the tuition tax relief for undergraduate courses in public higher institutes of education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21355/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Inflation Rate (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated level of inflation for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21377/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average annual cost of studying part-time at 'undergraduate and postgraduate level in public institutes of higher education; the total number of part-time undergraduate and postgraduate students in public institutes of higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21354/22]