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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (19 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 883. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the above two hour wait in the case of persons (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (19 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 885. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances in the public system since 2006; the number of ambulances deployed in each county since 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51241/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (19 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 884. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for an ambulance in each county since 2011;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51240/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are aspects of this budget I welcome. The Minister of State, Deputy Collins, has just outlined some of them in respect of apprenticeships and other elements of further education. The litmus test for the apprenticeships will if the backlog is cleared. We will be monitoring it very closely to ensure it is done. This is the second time a budget has failed utterly to address the...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Perhaps the Minister can comment on that later. I would hope something would be provided this year, because students are struggling right here and now. The Minister saw the students queuing for food banks. We live in a republic in 2021. Having students queuing for food banks that run out after an hour is atrocious. When is the review of SUSI going to be published? The Minister knows...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am glad we are discussing this topic, about which the Minister has heard me contribute on many times previously, because one of the greatest tragedies is what we lose out on when we do not invest properly in young people with disabilities. I am glad the Minister referred to the Minister of State with responsibility for special education, Deputy Madigan. I welcome this initiative and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think we have a problem and I am not sure the Minister recognises it. I ask him to re-examine this matter on the basis of the correspondence I am getting from students and parents. I have been contacted by a mother in Ballybunion who has one student in first year instrument engineering and another in third year biomedical engineering. Both are paying full fees of €6,000, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am very concerned about students' mental health and well-being. What is coming back to me is that many of them feel they have been misled and are disappointed, as are their parents and families. I ask the Minister to send a communication to all the third level institutions to ask them to do more and to have another look at this because it is an issue. I would not bring it to him before...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that many third-level students remain studying predominantly online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49753/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why is there such wide variation in the amount of on-campus time that students get in different colleges and universities? Students are coming back to me who say they are paying full fees, have paid for their accommodation up-front and were promised an experience by the Minister, and now find that they have as little as one to three hours on campus in a week, even for study time. This has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken to address the student accommodation crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49752/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: First, I want to warmly congratulate the Minister and his wife, Caoimhe, on the birth of your son, Cillian. As the mother of two boys, I know the great joy that can bring and I wish you all well. The student accommodation emergency is now at crisis point. I am being contacted by students and families with real-life stories of travelling up to seven hours a day to attend college because...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I think Owen Keegan’s comments were more than a lack of understanding. I think it was absolute contempt for the students and for the situation they are in. I hope the Minister will join with me in asking for his resignation. I am going to join students today when they are demonstrating at 1 p.m. outside Dublin City Council to make their feelings known on this....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are in the middle of an emergency and a crisis. I appreciate that the Minister says those things will be done. However, we had a chance to stop the conversion of student accommodation in 2016 and the Government did not do that. Those in the Government need to have a bit of humility, hold up their hands and say, “We did not act although we could have seen this coming as we knew we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the SUSI review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49756/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is evidence of a decline in the number of new registrations on construction related apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49754/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the student contribution charge is currently set at an appropriate level; when he will bring forward a sustainable funding model for third-level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49755/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider instructing his Department to begin collecting the data either through research or as a standardised component of the tax return on which research and development activity is carried out in order to allow for an assessment of the effectiveness of the research and development tax relief incentivising companies to deepen such activity...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of sitting days of the student grant appeals board in each year since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50032/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of annual registrations that would be required in order to maintain an apprenticeship population of 40,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50033/21]