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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of apprentices registering on both craft and consortia-led apprenticeships had already attained a level 8 qualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58478/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the energy efficiency and decarbonisation pathfinder programme in the higher education sector and plan to develop a similar programme for the further education and training sector as outlined in the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58479/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Mr. Donohoe's point about learning is also of concern to me as regards the importance of the love of learning. The pressures of the leaving certificate were touched on with respect to well-being. I am pleased to see that included. It concerns me that this pressure can almost knock the love of learning out of people. We must also look at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I refer to the digital divide and digitalisation and how much of a pullback that is. How long do we have to address that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have two comments on the apprenticeships. I agree with everything that has been said. Currently, we have a backlog of approximately 10,000 apprentices waiting to do their apprenticeships. These apprenticeships, which should last four years, are lasting five or six years. We also need to deal with this in real time. That is certainly not helping the situation. On PLC courses, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I completely agree with that. There must be room for piloting. How we free up that room and the necessary resources is by mainstreaming as we go along. That addresses the geographical or socioeconomic inequalities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Dr. Smyth might comment on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Dr. Smyth for that response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to discuss the backlog of apprenticeships. This is a question for IBEC or ISME. There are concerns about the backlog of apprenticeships given the shortage craft apprenticeships, qualified electricians, plumbers and carpenters, which feeds into the need for such workers for housing building. Regarding science, how can we ensure those who go on to third level to do science can take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Ms Costello for that response. If one of our guests could speak specifically about autistic young people that would be great and I will finish on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have to go to the Chamber, but I would be interested if one of the witnesses could speak about our talented autistic young people and how we can better support their needs and enable them to reach their full potential.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Dr. Smyth.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will engage with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to find a solution to the situation in which parents in education are seeing a substantial loss of income in cases in which they are moved from the jobseeker's transitional payment to the back to education allowance when...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reverse the cuts to the pandemic unemployment payment particularly for workers in sectors that continue to be subject to Covid-19-related restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57969/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (25 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and detail of all completed, ongoing and planned projects under the higher education strategic infrastructure fund; the level of co-financing being provided through the fund; the total cost of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58087/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (25 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the higher education strategic infrastructure fund is exclusively for traditional universities with independent borrowing power therefore excluding technological universities and institutes of technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (25 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total available funding under the higher education strategic infrastructure fund; the criteria used for allocating funding under the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58089/21]

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise the issue of Covid measures in education settings. First, while I welcome the Minister for Education's announcement regarding substitute teachers, we are 16 school days away from Christmas when schools will be breaking up anyway. We need to know the timelines in terms of substitute teachers. Can teachers expect substitute teachers to be available from Monday of next week? We need...