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

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is important that organisations are not excluded on the basis that they do not have the financial capital. Will those currently employed in local employment services be affected once new contracts are in place? If a group of local employment services misses out on this contract in the tendering process, will they be protected? Will there be a transfer of undertakings for existing staff...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protection of grade inflation that is anticipated in 2021, if any in leaving certificate results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35408/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that quotas on primary school teacher training are applied to public institutes of higher education but not private colleges; the steps she is taking to rectify the situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35407/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the eligibility criteria in the back of education allowance and jobseeker’s allowance and payment in terms of part-time education to ensure persons on part-time courses are not excluded from both; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35410/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Ballymurphy Families: Discussion (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Everyone on this call fully understands the responsibility that lies on the Minister's shoulders. He referred to it being compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights. What particular mechanisms are available to ensure the implementation of the Stormont House Agreement from that perspective? Can there be continuous communication with the families? If we lose the relatives and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Ballymurphy Families: Discussion (1 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Perhaps the Minister could start to answer some of those questions and when Mr Hazzard reconnects he could come back in.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (30 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated projected annual income to the National Training Fund and the reserve surplus of the Fund up until 2025 if expenditure remained stable both including and excluding Covid-19 emergency expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35013/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (30 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide all emergency Covid-19-related expenditure from the National Training Fund in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35014/21]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the apprenticeship incentivisation scheme is funded from the National Training Fund; the expenditure in 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of registered apprentices and the percent for which the financial support was received in both 2020 and 2021; the breakdown between craft and consortia-led apprenticeships; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Joyce, Ms Joyce and Ms Reilly. I was not on this committee the last time around and I am learning a lot from their contributions. It is clear to me that, as Ms Joyce stated, the system needs to look at itself. That is the major message from today. We need to examine the reasons why the previous strategy was not implemented, and who is responsible for that and why. There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could Ms Joyce give examples of specific grants that would be useful? It would be good to have tangible examples.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Ms Reilly might respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Ms Reilly for that response. Senator Flynn cannot contribute today but she has submitted questions. I want to acknowledge the difference she has made on the committee in education. We are continuously learning from her. The witnesses have a great voice in her in holding people to account. That is important and it will be important as we move forward with a new strategy and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Great. Mr. Joyce might answer this question. Are there specific recommendations on the further education provision and how it can do more? I know from dealing with further education there is flexibility to allow local colleges of further education to meet the needs of the communities and such flexibility may not be available in higher education. Does Mr. Joyce believe strengthening the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I acknowledge the good work of my former colleague, Colette Kelleher, in the previous Seanad, in bringing forward the Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill, as well as Oein de Bhairdúin, who worked with her. It is important. She did significant work in my time in the Seanad.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new social homes delivered via build programmes that will be delivered in County Mayo in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33921/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the requirements of planning applicants seeking to build on their parents or siblings’ land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33922/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Programmes (24 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland opposes Israel’s inclusion in the new Horizon Europe Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33923/21]