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Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion, not least because I come from north Mayo, an area of the country with one of the highest rates of fuel poverty. The fact is the Government is not doing enough. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald questioned An Tánaiste today but again got no response from him. That is no good to people who are struggling and juggling to pay their bills and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will announce the 2022-2024 multi-annual rural water programme funding for County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14229/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all members of the National Apprenticeship Alliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14195/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the total expenditure on higher education programme B is set to decrease by approximately €59.6 million in 2022 as outlined by the Parliamentary Budget Office in a recent report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14411/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to help Irish students returning from Ukraine to continue their studies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure interim list of eligible programmes, ILEP, rules are adequately enforced; if he will bring forward proposals to regulate agencies that sell English language courses in the State and provide greater levels of learner protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14750/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1025. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the pandemic bonus to front-line workers at Cancer Care West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14751/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their extremely valuable contributions. This is probably one of the most valuable sessions we are likely to have, particularly considering their experience working on the Cassells report. My first question to the witnesses is how much damage do they think has been done? It is five years after the Cassells report was published. It has come back from the EU but we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The question is whether we can catch up. Is there an opportunity to catch up or are we too far behind? How long will it take us to catch up, even if recurrent and capital spending are addressed, considering what we have lost out on since 2016?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are we putting higher and further education beyond the reach of people? It was referred to earlier that the system is there to suit the two adults with 2.4 children, a cat and a dog. If one goes outside of that, it creates bureaucratic nightmares for people and huge barriers to entry. How concerned are the witnesses about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The abolition of fees would obviously greatly help that also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is a very important discussion, but we cannot discuss things in isolation by saying "We are all for this and not for that." The witness referred to the fact that getting a radical model of SUSI is quite unlikely but we have all made substantial submissions here. This is why it really concerns me that reference was made to leaving the highest fees in Europe here, that we are okay with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is why I am saying that we need to discuss it in the whole context. We have an opportunity here to get this right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We cannot just say that students will be the cash cows for this. Even in terms of student accommodation, we know what is happening with the high-end student accommodation that is being supplied to bring the money in, because this is filling a gap also. This is why our core funding is so important. I absolutely and 100% take what the witnesses have said about lifelong learning, but rather...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, It is very important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to ask about the research because so little goes to technological universities. However, we now have an opportunity. I am particularly interested in the Atlantic Technological University and the capacity there for competing in research and development. What do we need for that and how do we do it? We must make sure that a bigger share is going to the technological universities and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I agree with every word of that. If we look at the Central Statistics Office, CSO, figures the inequality gap is three times wider than it was ten years ago.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to engage with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to build on the recent agreement and regularise pension rights of school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13529/22]

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Our society is very much lessened by the creeping incitement to hatred that has increased over recent years. While social media is often blamed, and rightly so because it speeds up the spreading of toxic hate speech, it is not the only cause. There are also often headlines in our supposedly reputable press that covertly, and sometimes overtly, incite hatred. We must look across the board...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise the issue of passports again. I know there are plans in place to address the backlog but right now thousands of people are waiting for passports. Many of our constituency offices are turning into passport offices so what immediate measures are being taken? Is there a way extra staff can be seconded into the Passport Office on a temporary basis? There are promises for two and three...