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Post-European Council: Statements (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Obviously, I welcome the progress made across the areas of the multi-annual financial framework, the Covid recovery and climate action. I also welcome the European Council's commitment to treating the vaccination as a global public good. There were positive steps recently at EU level in the conclusion of common advance purchase agreements to guarantee access for Ireland and other member...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise with the Taoiseach Claremorris Boys' National School, which has had 16 confirmed Covid-19 cases. On Monday, out of 85 pupils due in, only seven turned up. The Department and the Minister's handling of the challenges presented by Covid-19 in that school is wholly unacceptable. I commend the huge collective effort by the board of management, the principal and teachers, the parents'...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of grants and loans approved for each individual Covid scheme by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43829/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 375. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the breakdown of Covid-19-related supports allocated to community halls and centres by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43830/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses very much for their presentations. Useful questions have been asked. Regarding mobile telephone coverage, is there a measure or mapping of the households, estates and areas that do not have it? What advice can they give to people who do not have coverage? There are many, even within the county town of Castlebar in Mayo, who do not have mobile telephone coverage....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are households and estates that have no coverage.

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing the Bill to the House and I thank the Minister for accepting it. If we are to turn the tide and end the cruelty of homelessness, we need to address the heart of the problem. We need to reform our housing market so that it is no longer designed to maximise profit for landlords and lead to ever-increasing housing prices. Deeper reforms are needed but...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if universities are in a position to assure students applying from Northern Ireland that under no circumstance will they be charged international fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43164/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My question relates to students from the North. I know the Minister gave me assurances with regard to Erasmus. Can he give me the same assurances with regard to Horizon Europe as it pertains to students from the North? What else can we do to ensure greater mobility of students across the island and to create a collection of opportunities for those students? I am also cognisant of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Universal Support Ireland (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide additional information on the €20 million in budget 2021 for SUSI that will see the funding returned to 2019 levels; the projections on demand upon which this is based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43163/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Universal Support Ireland (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I ask the Minister to provide further details on the €20 million in budget 2021 for SUSI, which will see funding return to 2019 levels, and the demand projections upon which this figure is based. I have raised this with the Minister previously at the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The additional funding for SUSI announced...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Universal Support Ireland (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the Minister's recent announcement of a review of SUSI. I have been calling for such a review for a long time and the information we gathered in August of this year spoke to that very much. I ask the Minister to focus on the situation facing mature students who have been forced to move back home due to the current housing situation. Currently we have mature students, often...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Universal Support Ireland (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and assure him that I will make an input into the review. I also wish to raise the matter of the exclusion of online and part-time students. This particularly militates against students with disabilities who cannot go on campus or engage in full-time courses because of their conditions. This discrimination is totally wrong. I am concerned about those who are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Universal Support Ireland (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I ask the Minister to include young people with autism or their representatives, including his own brother, to ensure that we meet the educational needs of extremely bright young people with autism.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The issue is that institutions have overpromised and the Department must take some responsibility for that, as with the accommodation matter. Many of the students and parents I have spoken to feel they were misled. We cannot treat universities, institutes of technology and private colleges like primary or post-primary schools. They are marketing very expensive courses and that is what they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am sure the €250 support brought welcome relief to many students and I welcome the fact it was extended to postgraduates. We can consider the large sums involved in getting a master's degree, which can be anything from €8,000 to €18,000 per year. When the move online was announced at the end of September, students should have been offered the chance to defer or take a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could the Minister give us an assurance that students who are severely impacted by Covid, either by getting sick themselves or by related anxiety, stress or mental health issues, will not be penalised next year? Could there be a possibility for them to repeat and still be eligible for SUSI or not have to pay the fees again if they have medical evidence?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he has taken to urge universities to compensate postgraduate students for the move to online teaching and the much-reduced student experience promised in their prospectus and marketing campaigns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43162/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This question relates to postgraduate courses. It is an issue I wish to raise again. We should also include the graduate-entry medical students, as they pay similarly high fees. We have seen significant and justified anger among postgraduate students because they have paid so much for a one-year course and now they are doing it from their kitchen table or from box rooms. What, if any,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Support Schemes (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €250 payment will be extended to include all students in full-time third level education; the way in which students in final year who have already paid their fees can avail of the support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43160/20]