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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, I will, if you allow me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I hope that student kept the Chairman long enough at the door to give us a chance; I am glad he was doing his job. First, I recently visited Ballyfermot College of Further Education, BCFE, the principal, Ms Cecilia Monro, and her team. The building belies the extent of their work, particularly around animation, as well as on other things. I could feel the student-focused ethos of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No. I am asking if there will be restrictions on the numbers in classes. Will that mean that we can accommodate, say, 70% students who want to come back? Would it be 60%, or whatever? I want to get a picture of expectations.

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: While this Bill seeks a necessary extension to the duration of the CervicalCheck tribunal, we have to face the fact that, with only a single-figure number of claims, it is not working and is not fit for purpose. The Minister has heard that loud and clear. I welcome what he has said today about the consultations that will take place. He says women will have more time. Well, unfortunately,...

Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with Deputies Martin Kenny and Patricia Ryan who have five minutes each. On the whole, Sinn Féin supports the Bill. It is right to create uniformity in this area and set out in clear terms the relationship between schools, parents and students. Providing a framework in the form of a charter for parents and students will surely have a positive impact on engagement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all members of the National Training Advisory Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36718/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cybersecurity Policy (7 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount and share of the State expenditure on research and development spending in the area of cyber security since 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30808/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (6 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 75. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will be seeking additional core funding for family resource centres in budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36294/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (6 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance the institutions that are designated as publicly controlled market operators by the CSO as part of the official reporting of Ireland’s Government finance statistics and the excessive deficit procedure notification for Ireland in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36202/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank all the witnesses. Scrutinising this legislation is an almost impossible task. There is an enormous responsibility on us to ensure we come out with the best possible legislation that serves to give us a system that is fit for purpose. The key issue in the legislation is striking the right balance between the Department and the HEA; between the HEA and the institutes of higher...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Ms Hoade might reply as well, Chair, if time allows.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the general scheme of the Bill in its current form result in the centralisation of control in the higher education sector? That is a broader question for everybody. The 1971 Act set out the democratisation of the third level sector as an objective. Is this still relevant today? Does this Bill further this or contradict it? I return to the funding model and the CSO categorisation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This might be in hand, but we will need to ask the CSO in for a session to examine that so that, as Mr. Miley said, there are not unintended consequences and that we have a model that is suitable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What is the current role of the Higher Education Authority in governing the private college sector? How will this proposed Bill impact on the current governance structure in respect of the private colleges? In that regard, what would the provision for an independent appeals process look like? I refer to the process mentioned in some of the submissions. I thank the Chair for allowing me to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My question concerns the western rail corridor. Following the publication of the report by Dr. John Bradley, the Government needs to stop prevaricating and deliver on the western rail corridor as part of the national development plan. Is it in the national development plan? Does the Government recognise that it is a key piece of infrastructure for the development of the west of Ireland?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the profit-focused approach set out in a tender for the expansion of local employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35409/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I acknowledge the great work done by the Department of Social Protection and the people working on the ground. They had a significant task to meet the demand for the pandemic unemployment payment and other payments. I want to go back to talking about the local employment service. I believe that the Minister is making a monumental mistake and I need to ask her some specific questions about it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I question the Indecon report. It is a public document and was the basis for the decision that was to be made here. I believe that there is an alternative to this decision-making, despite what has been said about the EU directive. We have to question the data and the statistical information. I believe the data are inaccurate. In Mayo, for example, it was stated that there were 65...