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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has investigated the possibility of directly transferring the qualifications of experienced transport manager without the need to sit the transport management examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42693/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (10 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 386. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the insufficient support services provided to children with disabilities particularly school-aged services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40501/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effects of Covid-19 on Further Education and Training: Discussion (10 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I put the issue of the €250 payment to students and what was allocated in this regard to the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, the other day. Do the witnesses believe that full-time FET students should have been supported through that in terms of the reimbursement of the €250?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effects of Covid-19 on Further Education and Training: Discussion (10 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would appreciate if Mr. Brownlee could do that. It is important when anything is announced that there is fairness in it across the board and that people who should be included in schemes are not excluded. I am concerned about what we are doing to attract new apprentices because we are not meeting the targets. I am also concerned about what might happen next year. I welcome the incentive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effects of Covid-19 on Further Education and Training: Discussion (10 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What concerns me as well is that, with regard to the practical subjects that are conducted in higher level education, there does not appear to have been the same shutdown in that area as there was with the craft apprenticeships. In terms of the capital that is needed to ensure there are enough physical spaces and physical infrastructure, what needs to be done to increase the capacity?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (9 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have an interest in what has happened with Arcadia and the provisional liquidators that have been appointed because almost 50 workers in Mayo have been affected. I, too, am asking for the Government to do everything it can to facilitate the saving of those jobs. That is imperative. These workers are all going in over the Christmas period to work really hard, but the uncertainty is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (9 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: While I accept that the Minister of State said he hopes a buyer will be found, if one is not found, the very minimum that needs to be done is that these workers should have an assurance that their collective agreement will be honoured at the end of the season. That would be of some consolation to them. These are really important jobs to Mayo, as the Minister of State said. There is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Education (9 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of student nurses and midwives from each county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42396/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 45. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the REPS mark 2 pilot scheme will open for applications; if farmers locked out of schemes since AEOS finished in 2018 will be given preference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41626/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 54. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be a provision in CAP in which persons who had no basic payment entitlements are given some if they have a record of farming in the previous two years similar to that provided for in the last CAP reform under the Scottish Derogation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41627/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a further degree of flexibility can be shown in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the qualifying criteria for the back to education allowance have been changed to reflect the difficulty faced by many prospective and current students as a result of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the economic evaluation of the funding options presented in the Report of the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education by the European Commission DG Reform Programme; when he expects the evaluation to be complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41345/20]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My thanks to the Chairman and the Minister of State. I wish to clarify some things. It seems €18.5 million of the €43.5 million needed to fund the support will come under the B11 heading. That is the budget line for SUSI. Will the Minister of State confirm that this is in addition to, and totally separate from, the €20 million in additional support for SUSI announced...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is in addition.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is good. Today, we are considering the supplementary sum of €43.5 million in addition to the expenditure of €220 million. However, the initial announcement on 13 October in parallel with budget 2021 was for €50 million. Were savings made in that? Why is there a difference between the two figures?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What are those savings from within the Department?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is okay. Are we dealing with €43.5 million or the €50 million?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: For clarity, if it requires €50 million, must we come back again?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How will that be?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The national training fund is for apprenticeships, is it?