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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate the Minister of State might not be able to answer.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would appreciate if the Minister of State could provide me with a written answer.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Looking at appendix B that outlines the key high-level metrics, what was the total number of registered apprentices in the system at the end of 2021? It was 23,459 at the end of November. I wish to find out what the end-of-year figure is for that. Why is the target 23,534 for 2022 if this is already the level it is at? Are we not aiming for an increase in the number of apprenticeships...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We can see from the figures there were 6,913 in 2014. We are so far behind. This is why we need to monitor this as well as the number of dropouts. We need to keep advancing. We also need clarity that we are measuring it properly across the board. The Minister of State will agree we are still way behind other countries in how apprenticeships are handled. With regard to the backlog in...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I ask the Minister of State to please do so. I need to know how many apprentices are not included in the waiting list figure because they have been given a date. They are waiting but they have been given a date. Perhaps the Minister of State will clarify this.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister of State will give us the dropout figure when he has it. That would be good. On phase 2, the Minister, Deputy Harris, said the backlog would be cleared. Obviously this is where the majority are on the waiting list. He said it would be cleared by the end of 2022. Is this the case?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How much of the overall increase in the total number of apprenticeships is the result of increased registrations? How much is as a result of apprentices being trapped in the system? I take what the Minister of State is saying on the national apprenticeship office. Many of these issues will be deciphered so we can see clearly. It is important for the Minister of State also, with regard to...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That would be useful. How much did the State save as a result of the backlog in the apprenticeship system in 2020 and 2021?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It may be around €55 million but I stand to be corrected. How much of this has been allocated specifically to clearing the backlog? What is the difference between them in terms of the savings made? How much is allocated to it? In his statement the Minister of State referred to an increased number of undergraduate places to support leaving certificate students. Do we know how...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are the nursing course places private or public?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could I also have a forecast? My final point is on the increases the Minister of State rightly outlined. My question on the per-student figure is important because of the chronic underfunding of the system. It is one thing to add the places but it entirely different to consider how much is invested per student to create the places. I am very conscious of the pressure put on the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am really pleased to hear the Minister of State saying that funding will not be an issue with regard to capital expenditure on buildings because, as he will know himself, some of the buildings in which training and courses are delivered desperately need some capital funding, although others are excellent. I welcome that. I bring to the Minister of State's attention the town of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the CAWT representatives for the presentation and for all the good work they are doing. My first question is, when will the programme be approved by the EU Commissioner? When are they expecting that and how time-sensitive is it? Are there risks if it is not approved sooner rather than later? How successful was the recent health and well-being programme, which set out to train the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is great. How important does CAWT think cross-Border enrolment is for students? We are doing a project on that at the moment and examining training and education opportunities across the island so we have a shared approach to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together (10 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this Bill because it will enable the CCPC to operate more effectively. Indeed, it should provide the long-awaited powers necessary to tackle a wide range of white-collar crimes. As somebody who sat on the finance committee and who was involved in the scrutiny of insurance prices, what was happening in that market, the protection of raw data and how things were used against the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Not at all.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We do not have control of those finances.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister knows we do not control those finances.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister should speak to British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.