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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: I apologise, I must leave now to attend a meeting of the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. I thank the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Northern Ireland Economy: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Senator McGahon for giving way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Northern Ireland Economy: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Absolutely. I am forever indebted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Northern Ireland Economy: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this session today. I sincerely thank the witnesses for their valuable contributions to the all-Ireland economic discussion that must form the essential part of reshaping our island. The papers they have written facilitate and inform a discussion that is currently being held in households and businesses throughout the country and beyond. I propose that all of the people who have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Northern Ireland Economy: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I note Professor Fitzgerald has written about corporation tax. For the purposes of this meeting, the total managed expenditure is €27.88 billion. That is the sum total of the services with the accounting adjustments. When that is subtracted from the revenue raised in the North which is, as we agreed, €18.5 billion, a subvention figure of between €9 billion and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Northern Ireland Economy: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Over what time span would that be in terms of social welfare? Obviously, it is not something that would happen immediately but over a period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Northern Ireland Economy: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have no more time left and I do not want to take up the rest of the time available. I thank Professor FitzGerald.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Northern Ireland Economy: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Each of the pieces in the papers would deserve to be the subject of an entire. I need to comment on life in the west. A vivid picture of Galway has been painted, with which we are delighted but which belies the lack of investment in the western rail corridor, Ireland West Airport in Knock, broadband and several other infrastructure projects. I like that Professor Morgenroth alluded to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Public Service Numbers (3 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I take on board what the Minister says. I look forward to an improvement in it. Perhaps the Minister could liaise on the transfer over of cars. People are trying to get their cars transferred over but cannot do so because they do not have PPS numbers. A bit of common sense and flexibility around it would go a long way. I commend staff who have done Trojan work on this, the PUP and other...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Public Service Numbers (3 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the waiting lists for PPS numbers; if her attention has been drawn to the negative impact this has had on workers and businesses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40008/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Public Service Numbers (3 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and take on board what she said about the PPS numbers. The reason that I submitted this question was that a constituent has had construction staff sitting idle for months now because they could not do the Safe Pass test. Will the Minister liaise directly with SOLAS to ensure that at least those people who are waiting for PPS numbers can do the Safe Pass test? The woman...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (3 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if representation by trade unions and organisations that represent the elderly, women and farming organisations will be included on the Pensions Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40007/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (3 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 128. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the expansion plan to increase the number of family resource centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40502/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the inquiry into the prescribing of valproate, known as Epilim, to pregnant women without informing them of the harm it was likely to do their unborn children which was announced last week by the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. I thank the Minister for keeping his word. When is the inquiry going to commence? Will the Minister engage with OACS Ireland, the families impacted and...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this motion being brought forward by Solidarity-People Before Profit. I absolutely condemn the amendment put forward by the Government. During the discussion this morning I was minded of the time I spent in London. Hundreds of thousands of our nurses were forced to emigrate there, and nothing has changed. All the camogie and football teams there were full of nurses that this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (2 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average cost of part-time courses in public third-level institutions; the average cost per institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40554/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: To say we give schools the money and they are responsible for this is an abdication of responsibility. Whereas they are not legally defined as such, these people are certainly public servants. It is argued that they are not employees of the State, despite the fact that the body that employs them on a long-term basis is funded by the State. The third reason put forward is these people have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We have heard all those arguments before. We heard them in the cases of school secretaries and caretakers. Recently the Government finally agreed to sit down for talks to regularise the pay, conditions of employment and pension provision of school secretaries and caretakers, which is a welcome development. I look forward to an outcome that they have waited on for a long time. These...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether cleaners are critical staff in the running of schools; her plans to provide pension rights to long-service cleaners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40006/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish to ask the Minister whether, in her view, cleaners are critical staff in the running of schools, and if that view will be reflected in how she approaches pension reform for long-service cleaners. Cleaners have always played a central and vital role in schools but, with Covid, their importance has increased. Does the Department have any plans to move cleaners into the public service...