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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank all of the witnesses for their very interesting opening statements. I thank Dr. Kennedy for being here and it is an absolute shameful disgrace that somebody in his position is at risk merely by appearing before an Oireachtas committee to tell the truth about how things are, which is a shame on a lot of Dáileanna, not just on successive Governments. To be in a position like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am really conscious that as we discuss this here today, there are families who are absolutely crippled with the cost of trying to access third level education and there are other children in households who are doing without just so those students can cling on to the third level education that they are in or going to start in September. We really need to be mindful of that in how we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am conscious that time is of the essence. We cannot afford to just let this be absorbed into third level institutions where it would have to through a whole ream of processes. A fast-tracking mechanism is needed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What upskilling or cross-skilling will be required to meet the needs of the labour market?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The joint committee adjourned at 1.27 p.m. until 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 5 April 2022.

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with Deputies Andrews and Ó Murchú. I welcome the opportunity to speak on Second Stage of the Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill. This legislation has been well flagged and has had a long gestation before reaching the Dáil. It is to be welcomed that we now have the legislation before us for scrutiny. The aim of the Bill is to facilitate the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) (No. 2) Order 2022: Motion (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I congratulate him because the technological universities are one of the initiatives he has driven forward. I commend all those who have worked so hard to make this happen. It is not easy to disagree and keep progressing at the same time. I have every confidence, however, that if the proper resources and funding are provided and the right leadership is in place for...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 1: In page 11, line 28, to delete "the Higher Education Authority Act" and substitute "Údarás um Ard-Oideachas Act". The reason for this amendment is that I want to delete "the Higher Education Authority Act" and substitute it with "Údarás um Ard-Oideachas Act". This Bill and the 1971 Act create a body whose only legal name is "An...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I accept that and am glad we will continue this discussion, but I really believe we need to set the parameters for this. That is why I believe this amendment is really important. It would guide other amendments throughout. For that reason, I intend to press it.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do I reserve the right to resubmit the amendment on Report Stage?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. If you do not call a vote, then you can bring it up.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move amendment No. 2: In page 12, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “ “Core funding” means the Recurrent Grant Allocation Model (RGAM) used by the HEA to fund the public institutions of higher education and any model that may replace the RGAM as the HEA funding model;”. The reason we want to insert this definition of core funding is that it...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate what the Minister is saying. Certainly, I would not want to exclude the institutions the Minister has named. I am seeking to make a distinction between the public higher education institutions, HEIs, and the designated institutions. My concern is that the Bill provides a pathway for private colleges to become designated institutions of higher education and that there are a...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We agree more than disagree on what we are trying to achieve here. Others may wish to speak on this matter. I do not want the core funding to be diluted by spreading it to private institutions.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will revisit this matter at a later Stage.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am happy to support that amendment. It makes sense.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to come back again to Roadbridge and reiterate that there is no way we are going to we will stand idly by in Mayo or in Erris and watch intergenerational contractors and suppliers who have been there for years, through thick and thin, being pushed to one side. I know the Minister is asking for stakeholders to engage. I specifically ask him to, please, step in on the issue of Bord na...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (23 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the naturalisation case of a person (details supplied) will be examined given that they are currently unable to represent the national team in an upcoming international competition if citizenship is not awarded in time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15295/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Company Liquidations (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Roadbridge entering receivership has come as a major shockwave to workers, contractors and suppliers throughout Mayo and this State. The extent of the devastation for workers and contractors is unfolding each day before our eyes as employees find that their pension contributions have not been paid, their health insurance has lapsed and they cannot afford to keep paying their mortgages. It...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Company Liquidations (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The people of Mayo will not stand for this. We will not be pushed to one side. People and contractors who have worked in our communities for years and years are not going to stand by and be pushed around like this. Something needs to be sorted and the Government has to step up for them and for the workers. One worker told me today of his experience of having to go to the Society of St....