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

Rose Conway-Walsh: My question relates to the €250 payment to students, for which €50 million in funding was announced in the budget. Can the Minister clarify why €43.5 million, rather than €50 million, was provided in the Supplementary Estimate? Will he comment on the number of students excluded from the payment, including part-time students, students on full-time post-leaving...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the Minister's response and the fact that students studying abroad and in the North will get this support, albeit, as I know the Minister understands, it is very little in terms of the high fees they have to pay. For students in their final year, is there a cut-off date by which the institutions have been asked to pay this money? How many students will be paid before Christmas?...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all public institutes of higher education have now agreed to provide refunds for unused accommodation; the actions his Department has taken to help students again battling with private accommodation providers for refunds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43159/20]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have been raising the issue of students paying for unused accommodation since the summer. Each time I have raised it, the Minister has assured me that at the very least, students with on-campus accommodation would get refunds. Will he confirm whether all universities are issuing refunds? I will come to the issue of private accommodation later. I really want to get this matter off the...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, there are students who have done this, and my son is one of those in the accommodation in Trinity College Dublin. I am not disputing that but it is not good enough that public institutions have refused to give refunds or are giving only partial refunds. Many have tried to give the smallest refunds possible. I have received recent reports that some universities, including Dublin City...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: As the Minister said, most students are not in on-campus accommodation, but in the private rented sector. Private student accommodation has been the preferred model for successive Governments. When I raised the issue of private accommodation in recent months, the Minister said there was not a lot he could do. I wish to commend the private accommodation providers who have issued refunds...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I completely understand that, but I am asking for a review of it, similar to what was done in Britain with the green book.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider a review of the appraisal processes used in decision making to ensure better balanced regional development and greater transparency across the appraisal and decision-making process. [41617/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Covid-19 and Brexit have served to bring to the forefront the need to address the stark regional imbalance and overpopulation of Dublin and our major cities. We must provide the infrastructure necessary to enable people to live and work in rural Ireland. The fact is that the criteria used for cost-benefit analyses on major projects mitigates against investment in regions. I ask the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he will provide clarity to students in terms of on-campus time in the next semester given the experience of the last semester; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43161/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures and supports that have been put in place for third-level students with dyslexia and other conditions that secured them supports at second level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43284/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the independently appointed consultants conducting the economic evaluation of the funding options presented in the report of the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education under the European Commission DG Reform Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43285/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full-time further education students by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43563/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the decline in numbers of apprenticeship entrants to full-time education courses as a result of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43564/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 640. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the HPV vaccine for medical card and non-medical card holders who are advised to get the vaccine by their general practitioner or consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43562/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (10 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned primary care centre in Bangor Erris, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42440/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting and average wait times for orthopaedic treatment in County Mayo by type of treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42441/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Brexit Issues (10 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons by county residing in Ireland using a UK driver licence; the way in which they will be impacted by Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42585/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Driver Licences (10 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown by centre of the wait times for appointments to exchange a UK driver licence at an NDLS centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42586/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Brexit Issues (10 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when his Department first flagged the unique issue related to transport managers in Ireland in relation to Brexit with the European Commission; when his Department first contacted transport managers in relation to the need to obtain an Irish qualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42692/20]