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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Admissions (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am asking the Minister to address the barriers facing students accessing graduate-entry medicine. Only approximately half of the places in medicine in the State go to students from Ireland. There has been essentially no increase in the quota of 708 Irish and other EU students who can study medicine here. In the same period, approximately 100 new places were added for more lucrative...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Admissions (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Every year gets more competitive for the Irish student to study medicine and, as the Minister stated, other students begin with another degree and then try to get back in and study medicine. This graduate-entry medicine route is even more dominated by the more lucrative international students. If it is possible to imagine, this is even more difficult to get into than directly from the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Admissions (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for that. That needs to be done sooner rather than later because becoming a doctor, the Minister will agree, should not be the reserve of one class in our society. Can the Minister also provide details on the arrangement Bank of Ireland has with the universities for giving loans to graduate-entry medicine and what action will he take to allow more people to address...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Higher Education Grants (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic will be pushed out of SUSI for accepting the pandemic unemployment payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27377/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Higher Education Grants (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to ask the Minister about students who have lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic and who now believe they will be pushed out of SUSI for accepting the pandemic unemployment payment. Will the Minister please clear this up because it is causing huge concern?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Higher Education Grants (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. I know he agrees it is unacceptable that students would be pushed out and denied SUSI grants because they accepted the pandemic unemployment payment. I would treat it as an exceptional needs payment. Nobody should be penalised for accepting the pandemic unemployment payment, particularly not working students who lost their jobs because of the pandemic. This is where...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Higher Education Grants (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Would the situation of this mother be considered a change of circumstances? She has three boys on the pandemic unemployment payment who are still in college and living at home. They are in Maynooth, Dublin and Sligo. If the pandemic unemployment payment is not disregarded it will push her over the threshold and she will not be able to take out a loan for €30,000 to pay for their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Deputy Carthy can come in. We have one minute left.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consumer Protection (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 30. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the office of the food ombudsman will be given statutory power to enforce the Competition Acts for the protection of primary food producers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27008/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Legislation (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 40. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce legislation to ensure primary producers are paid costs plus a margin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27007/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the backlog of apprentices on the waiting list for off-the-job training will be cleared; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26989/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Ulster Connacht Alliance application for technological university status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26991/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (20 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of nursing and midwife places on undergraduate courses in the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26988/21]

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Regional Group for bringing this motion, which I wholeheartedly support. It is nothing short of disgraceful that people must still fight for water 100 years after the State was formed. The motion being debated states that "clean water and wastewater systems are essential components to grow communities" and that it is essential that we invest in "the infrastructure necessary to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (19 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the implementation of a model (details supplied) for student well-being has been explored for Irish higher education institutions; if so, the estimated cost of the implementation of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26720/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if greater flexibility will be shown to persons on jobseeker’s allowance and other social welfare payments to help them return to education given the criteria for access to the back to education allowance for recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment regarding the qualifying social welfare payment; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number in each county in receipt of local authority provided special accommodation for older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26445/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 344 of 11 May 2021, the details of all other forms of social housing included in the figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number in each county in receipt of private rental rent supplement social housing support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26444/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the contributors. It is a really interesting discussion. To Mr. Ryan, how important are student councils? What resources do student councils need to enable them to represent the realities as he described, to be able to communicate that within a school and then outward from the school?