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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There was a backlog before Covid. However, the current backlog is extremely serious. I ask the Minister of State to do everything he can and use the excess in the National Training Fund to ensure that the more than 6,000 apprenticeships to which I refer do not have to be extended beyond four years to six years or whatever. The Minister of State will be acutely aware of the knock-on...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: May I bring one matter to the attention of the Minister?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I refer to the increase in places for medicine. Concern has been expressed to me by students who did their leaving certificate in 2019, one of whom achieved eight H1 grades. They feel that because of the lack of spaces, they will be at a severe disadvantage if there is points inflation this year. In light of the pandemic, demand in the public health area and our need to educate more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The EU and Irish Unity - Planning and Preparing for Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Professor Harvey and Mr. Bassett for this paper. It is enormously important and I refute some of the comments that have been made about it. There is real value in it because it raises key questions I have not seen raised anywhere else. In any papers that are written there are observations and certain editorial stuff, but there is real factual stuff here, for instance, around who...

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with my colleagues and would appreciate being cut off after eight minutes. My thanks to Solidarity-People Before Profit for bringing forward this important motion. While it might contain some things that we have differences on, I wholeheartedly support the vast majority of it. The first point arises in terms of removing the barriers in place. I hear the Minister...

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sharing time with Deputy Cullinane. The Minister will be aware that, until now, people with disabilities have been forced to choose between academic scholarships and disability payments, including two very impressive women from my county, Mayo. Catherine Gallagher is planning to do a PhD in political communications at Dublin City University, DCU, and Muireann Cosgrave is in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that accept a place to study medicine each year through the CAO system since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13218/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 962. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the inquiry into the historical licensing of sodium valproate which was announced in November 2020; if the terms of reference have been agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13444/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 963. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to establish a valproate stakeholder group consisting of State bodies, representative and patient groups to improve the co-ordination of risk minimisation measures associated with the ongoing use of sodium valproate in women of child-bearing age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13445/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 964. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of the community operations programme for families of children affected by sodium valproate; if funding is currently in place to ensure that the programme is made fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (10 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 966. To ask the Minister for Health the details of funding options available to persons requiring fertility treatment; if such treatment is not available on the public system under the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13459/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is also in connection with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, especially in relation to a person who has been in contact with me, namely, Catherine Gallagher from Achill. She is 23 years of age and has undergone dozens of operations. She ploughed through college and has now been offered a scholarship for a PhD. She is told that if she takes up that PhD and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (4 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if support will continue to be provided through the free fees initiative and SUSI grants for students that have to repeat a year due to the impact of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12217/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (4 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider including the pandemic unemployment payment received by students within the income disregard for the SUSI grant scheme; if his Department has conducted an analysis on the impact pandemic unemployment payments will have on access to SUSI for the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12218/21]

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would like the Minister to respond to those two important questions, about music and mock exams, after my contribution. There needs to be clarity there. On the issue of safety, what has the Minister done specifically to avoid a situation such as that in Claremorris Boys' National School before Christmas? She talked about autonomy. If a board of management, a principal and parents all...

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister might respond to the questions on music and mock exams, if the Minister of State does not mind. I appreciate her response.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to attach an accreditation to the ten-month SNA course launched in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11360/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the full economic costings per discipline across the third-level sector will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11113/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cross-Border Co-operation (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from his Department have met with the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland to discuss higher education provision in the north-west region as outlined in the joint communiqué from the 25th North-South Ministerial Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11475/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (3 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of graduates each year from a college (details supplied) from a professional master's degree in education in primary initial teaching education since the college was founded in 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11835/21]