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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State for their statements today. The first thing I want to look at is safety within the schools. Perhaps the Minister could clarify something for me on the 40% reduction in personal protective equipment, PPE, that was talked about earlier in the year. Has that now been addressed? Is that 40% cut not going to happen? I will ask each question...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is good. No school will be without any PPE it requests. With regard to testing and tracing, will there be serial testing for all school staff this time? What improvements have been made in the school tracing since last year to ensure we can keep any outbreak that occurs contained?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is good. If somebody has a test, will the result be back within 24 hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Part of the problem we had the last time, as the Minister will recognise, is the interface between the Department of Education and the HSE and where the accountability lay in terms of information and the actions that needed to be taken. I welcome the fact that this is to be improved. Will staff who are performing intimate caring roles be given medical-grade masks now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. It has been said, and I believe it, that there is an inequality with regard to the mainstream schools with young people who have special educational needs. I see it even in my constituency in terms of one school being able to meet the needs of students with special educational needs while another is not. It is very confusing for parents. They feel a sense of injustice and inequality...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Hopefully, it will be sooner rather than later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The main issue being highlighted is that the mental health and well-being of our children and young people has been impacted. The immediate challenge for us, however, is how we ensure this impact is temporary and not permanent. While I acknowledge the Minister mentioned the €2 million, it is hugely important, therefore, that money is front-loaded into the mental health services, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Irish Language and the New Decade New Approach Agreement: Conradh na Gaeilge (2 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Níl ach cúpla focal Gaeilge briste agam. The wider question, and I have always asked this question, is how we have so many children going through schools here at national and second level who still do not have fluent Gaeilge at the end of 13 or 14 years of education. We need to examine that. Today's session is very useful and timely. It is timely in the sense that we discussed...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: First Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision in relation to certain tenants’ obligations to pay rent in respect of dwellings used for accommodation during academic term times, to make provision in relation to the maximum period of notice required by such tenants to terminate a tenancy, to oblige certain landlords to refund relevant payments in...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: First Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (25 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the public expenditure on research and development and as a percentage in each year since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10604/21]

New Decade, New Approach Agreement: Statements (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: One of the most important elements of the New Decade, New Approach agreement and of all the preceding agreements, is the provision of educational innovation and research opportunities across the island. The agreement commits the Irish Government to delivering for the people of the North on a sustainable economic basis. A post-conflict education system must be underpinned and permeated by...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons that have submitted a UK driver licence to be transferred to an Irish licence; the number still waiting to be issued an Irish licence; if these persons are permitted to drive in the interim period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9424/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 17 February 2021, when payment was given to a company (details supplied); the terms on which payment was provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10250/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Archives (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 254. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to introduce legislation to enable the development of systematic web archiving on a legal deposit basis; her views on the need for such an archive for Ireland’s national research infrastructure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10328/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Colleges (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if publicly-funded higher education institutions are restricted or limited to independently determining the number of students they enrol for professional masters of education courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10081/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of extending the Gaeltacht grant to students in a college (details supplied) in 2021; the estimated cost if the grant was extended to the 800 second-year students in the college; the estimated cost if it was extended to both first and second-year students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10507/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for the Connacht-Ulster Alliance of GMIT, LYIT and IT Sligo has been submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9537/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who have already paid their fees for the 2020-2021 academic year will effectively be unable to access the €250 Covid support until September 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9540/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if PhD students who have scholarships that cover their fees will be unable to access €250 Covid support until they graduate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9541/21]