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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No. There are pragmatic solutions to all of these issues. We are not speaking about sending somebody to an outer planet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How will we cope with the welcome influx of Ukrainian third-level students? Many of them will need intensive supports after the traumatic experiences they have had. How will we cope with this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I do not mind. I ask whoever is best placed to deal with it to respond. Perhaps we will have an opportunity to ask more questions later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I was tuned in from the beginning and had to turn off when I got on campus to get down to the committee room. I have listened with interest to what everybody has said and I thank the witnesses for their submissions on this important subject. I also listened to the contributions that went before me from committee members. It is clearly established that once-off funding on a yearly basis...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The first thing we need is more data to see the extent of the problem. We know what is happening. We know because young people ring politicians in the middle of the night. They should not be ringing us to ask us for clinical help. We also know from the Irish Patients Association report and yesterday's HSE report that many people who present at emergency departments get fed up waiting for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Therein the problem lies and it is quite shocking. As was said earlier, lip service is paid to it. Everyone says they deeply care about the mental health of young people but we do not do what we need to do, even the very simple things, to fix the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do our guests think there is a crisis in mental health in the third-level sector? What will happen if there is no intervention or proper planning? We have an opportunity here as we consider the future funding for higher education. We either take it or we ignore the problems and issues our guests have presented us with today. Is there a crisis? Can it deepen if nothing is done about it? ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are there disparities between institutions in approach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How might the collision of the cost-of-living crisis and the mental health crisis impact these matters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Apr 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Would anyone else like to comment on that question about the cost of living?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (31 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 51. To ask the Minister for Health the emergency action he is taking to address the number of patients on trolleys in Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16866/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (31 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 91. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the 13-bed build intended to facilitate the larger 50-bed development in advance of the National Capital and Property Steering Committee scheduled for 26 April 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16867/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (31 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the new measures in his proposed CAP strategic plan that will support young farmers and generational renewal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16869/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (31 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to allocate funds from the European crisis reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16868/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) who has been disqualified from social housing due to maintenance payments bringing them over the income threshold; the alternative supports or pathways that are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17179/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage and amount of tax paid by each category of apprentice during off-the-job training for each phase of their apprenticeship, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17101/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of excluding apprentices training allowances taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17102/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (30 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the issue of legacy debt in rural group water schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17103/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (30 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when strand 2 of the Rural Water Working Group will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17104/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (30 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish strand 1 of the Rural Water Working Group as soon as it is finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17105/22]