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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of revised principles for a new higher education staffing agreement to update the current employment control framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12744/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driver test in each centre nationwide; the average waiting time in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12334/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the SUSI income thresholds for 2022-2023 were raised by €1,000 across all bands including for the special rate band which is for the lowest earners, that is, those on a Department of Social Protection payment with combined household earnings of less than €24,000 per annum; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome our guests. I also welcome Alex, who I hope finds this session interesting. I thank our guests for their opening statements, each of which spoke to what we need to do with the future funding model. My first question is for Mr. Jones from IFUT. He highlighted the impact that underfunding has had on the ranking of our institutes of higher education. In this committee, we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If the universities had the funding tomorrow morning, is there anything else that would stop them from doing that? Is it purely a matter of funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I ask for a brief answer on the SFI model and the 1% levy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am asking about the proposed 1% levy on corporation profits. The levy on the payroll is ring-fenced for the National Training Fund. Why is it proposed to levy 1% on profits instead of increasing the training fund levy? Is there any reason for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. Has the fact that the money is going to SFI impacted on the working conditions within the education sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank my colleagues, Deputies Ó Murchú and O'Rourke, for allowing me in today. I really wanted to be here to discuss this matter. Obviously like Deputy Calleary, I am from Mayo. In the context of its importance to the Atlantic economic corridor, is the western rail corridor shovel ready if the funding were to be provided tomorrow morning? I have read the report by Dr. John...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have heard the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, say how important it is to connect all that up. This is why I am confused. Every politician I speak to, with very few exceptions, seems to recognise the importance of it. If there is so much political support for it, why is it not happening? Why do we get a TEN-T report which leaves it out of the core projects again? During the Covid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do they all agree on the importance the western rail corridor? Do they all agree on how important rail infrastructure is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I need to interrupt Mr. Devane because we have limited time. Why have we moved to being a region in transition and why have we seen from the recent Central Statistics Office, CSO, figures showing that the income inequality gap is three times larger?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to give Mr. Feeney an opportunity to contribute. At €154 million, we are talking about a small amount of money. Why are we back here time and again? It does not make sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Climate change, emissions and so on as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How concerned is Mr. Feeney about recent developments in the TEN-T?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is my understanding as well. We have gone to Brussels and got the same answers. There are serious questions to be answered. The rail review is our last opportunity. I believe the Minister has said it will be published in late summer. We need to see this project being properly recognised in the rail review. I am also on the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This morning the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, SCSI, launched a report on the construction costs of rebuilding the homes affected by pyrite and mica. I thank it for its work and acknowledge that it did so free of charge as a public service. I welcome the scrapping of the nonsense of the sliding scale, but there are many issues of concern outside the terms of reference. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On behalf of Sinn Féin, I wish the outgoing Leader of the Labour Party, Deputy Kelly, well following his announcement last night that he has resigned his role. I extend my best regards to him and his family. I welcome Ms Linda Ervine, who will be in the Seanad today to speak on Seachtain na Gaeilge. We extend her a fáilte mór from this House and acknowledge the great work...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to be updated on those discussions. There has to be an immediate response, or one that is as immediate as possible. There are growing conversations in many EU countries about ending imports of Russian oil and gas into the future. Has the Government considered what the State can do to secure its energy supply if this comes to pass? We were told all the time that the Corrib gas...