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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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (12 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 545 of 28 September 2021, if he will provide further detail and an explanation for the increase in the number of cases of overpayments discovered under the reason, information omitted from application; the breakdown of the type of information omitted; the number of discoveries of information omitted from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (12 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 545 of 28 of September 2021, if he will provide further detail and an explanation for the increase in the number of cases of overpayments discovered under the reason eligibility; the breakdown of the reasons students were deemed ineligible in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 487. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to improve transport services from rural areas to designated cancer centres for scheduled day case treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49191/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the income threshold for the fuel allowance for persons with disabilities can be raised in order to reflect the additional cost of living with a disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48671/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the EU directive or regulation on public procurement that requires the dismantling of the current local employment services system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48670/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Third Level Admissions (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the barriers faced by persons within the naturalisation process in accessing further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48669/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Community Foundation for Ireland (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I am very familiar with the work of the Community Foundation for Ireland and we have done some projects in Mayo with it, as well as some cross-Border projects. It has been a while now. Working in community development, sometimes with the application for funding there is much bureaucracy but I have always found the Community Foundation for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Community Foundation for Ireland (7 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. I thank the witnesses.

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I acknowledge and thank People Before Profit for bringing forward this important motion. Like my colleagues, I am gravely concerned by the impact of the rising cost of energy. Fuel poverty has been talked about for years and, sadly, it is becoming more and more common. At the end of 2020, Ireland had the fourth highest electricity prices in the EU and the seventh highest gas prices....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yesterday was a day for bold, transformative decisions. We in the west waited with anticipation for our share of the €650 billion national development plan but there were no individual projects. The Minister for Foreign Affairs mentioned earlier individual projects had been named. County Mayo was not mentioned anywhere in the national development plan. There was no mention of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of the members of the Student Grants Appeals Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47625/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for reducing the number of members of the Student Grants Appeals Board from 11 to seven; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47626/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the years for which annual reports were prepared by the Student Grants Appeals Board for the relevant Department since its formation in 2011; the specific years in which the relevant Department requested an annual report from the Student Grant Appeals Board since its formation in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47627/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in accordance with the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016, an oversight agreement has been put in place between his Department and the Student Grants Appeals Board; if not, if any exemption has been sought from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47628/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he or another Minister or Minister of State from the Department of Education last met with the Student Grants Appeals Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47629/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses. I listened intently last week and this to the submissions. As I see it, this is probably the biggest change management project we have undergone for decades. I note the differences in approach, particularly where Mr. Gillespie said we need evolution rather than revolution, while Ms Neville said we need radical change. I come down on Ms Neville's side because I think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, and it must be targeted to the right place and prioritised. We cannot allow what is happening with career guidance to continue. People are not fulfilling their potential because they do not have the right career guidance. We can have all the apprenticeship programmes we want, along with all the other alternatives, but it will not matter if there is appropriate career guidance...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of and position on the turnaround times for and backlog of passport applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47172/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (30 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that are being taken to rectify some of the impact the disruption to the operation of the foreign birth register during Covid-19 has had on applicants, such as cases in which the delay to completing the registration of a person could impact the rights of their children to claim citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the...