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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with the Minister for Health in order to establish a target, optimum number of pharmacy places in order to meet the needs of society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9156/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering steps to reduce the cost of final year for pharmacy students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9158/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer of extending the free fees initiative to the final year of pharmacy in the same form as it is currently applied to all undergraduate courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9159/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of places in medicine in each institution by undergraduate and graduate entry medicine for students from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Britain, other European Union and non-European Union international for 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9557/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of medical places combined across undergraduate and graduate entry medical allocated to European Union students including Britain and Northern Ireland in each year since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9558/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the anticipated increase in Irish and European Union student places in both undergraduate and graduate entry medicine in the academic year 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9559/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of fully qualified paramedics and other ambulance staff with a degree in paramedic science; the number recruited with a diploma in emergency medical science from the National Ambulance Service since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9133/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the health technology assessment on a school-based HPV mop-up vaccination programme; his views on the provision of the HPV vaccine to those who missed or turned down a vaccine in the first year of school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9412/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 839. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of beds in Belmullet Community Hospital in each year since 2008, in tabular form; the array of treatments and care provided at the Belmullet campus in each year since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9879/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 840. To ask the Minister for Health when the anticipated return from 12 to 20 beds, as was in place prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Belmullet Community Hospital, will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9880/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 841. To ask the Minister for Health the total capital investment in Belmullet Community Hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9881/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 842. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent medical and non-medical staff in Belmullet Community Hospital since 2008, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9882/22]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank all of our guests for their submissions. I fully agree this is a critical conversation. Indeed the Minister himself has said the raison d’êtrefor the setting up of the new Department is to get the funding model right. This is an opportunity for us to do that. I am very disappointed that despite the Minister promising month after month to have the economic analysis from...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: On that point, has there been any formal communications from the Minister around what the impact of that might be or around planning for that?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: How do so many other countries manage not to have student fees at all and yet still manage to have a very high standard of third level education?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: It can be done.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: It can be done in nations and member states which we consider to be a great deal less wealthy than this country, which it is important to state.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: May I ask about the impact of the funding situation as it is and the debt being €1 billion across the board? What impact does that have on the development of on-campus accommodation?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand that, but what is stopping that? It has been agreed across the board that we will enable borrowing for the technological universities. Why is it not happening right now?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: The submissions of both THEA and the IUA reference the National Training Fund. This is a very important issue. The programme for Government has committed to utilising the National Training Fund surplus. The suspension of EU fiscal rules due to Covid also provided a window of opportunity to do this. This has not happened so far. The reserve was as high as €817 million a year ago...