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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that at the end of August 2020 the French Prime Minister announced that France would waive track access charges for rail freight for the remainder of 2020 and cut them in half for all of 2021, EU regulations permitting; his plans to support the regulation to reduce, waive or defer track...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if financial supports are planned to allow Iarnród Éireann to modernise and expand its rail freight rolling stock fleet as the current limited stock will not allow for business expansion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31131/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the maximum net income a couple with two children can earn and still quality for local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31551/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the numbers of persons receiving invalidity payments by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31538/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details on the training, upskilling and reskilling available for those on invalidity payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31539/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no specific plan was put in place to address the disadvantage faced by the 8,000 students who sat the leaving certificate prior to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30256/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Preparations (15 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 16. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if his Department expects Brexit to have a disproportionate impact on employment and business in rural Ireland; the specific mitigation strategy in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30602/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (15 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 29 September 2020, the way in which she expects schools to be able to continue to pay the wages of secretaries and caretakers, which were increased between 2016 and 2019; if she is withdrawing the financial support that made the increases possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: People need hope and as much certainty as possible during this global pandemic and this budget was an opportunity to provide just that. While the headline figure of €16.75 billion additional expenditure suggests a progressive budget, in reality the inequality gap continues to widen. Covid-19 has laid bare the mismanagement of public services and the misguided policies of successive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action being taken to account for the students who were not directly affected in terms of upgrades and downgrades but were nevertheless squeezed out of places and preferred courses due to the errors in the algorithm; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30255/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that have been left without school transport; the number of applications pending for both concessionary and eligible categories; the actions being taken to address the situation; when students currently excluded will access transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25687/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of additional capital allocation of €75 million for primary and post-primary schools to carry out necessary reconfiguration works to support the reopening of schools in late August 2020 that has been allocated and spent to date; if all schools received their grants for 2020 in view of the fact many schools also cover...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (14 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is monitoring the debt levels of publicly funded universities and technological universities; the total amount and by each publicly funded university and technological university; the anticipated impact on levels of debt held by universities due to Covid-related disruption to the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years; and if he...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We already have a carbon tax. Since 2010 we have collected about €3.5 billion on carbon tax. The money has not been ring-fenced for climate change measures. People find it difficult to understand. Some years ago, "Prime Time" interviewed the CEO of the Corrib gas project. He was asked when the company would pay corporation tax. He replied that it might be paid in 20 or 25 years'...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (13 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average wait times for a PPS number by county in tabular form; the steps she is taking to reduce wait times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30091/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health Insurance (13 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the substantial increase in health insurance costs resulting from the Health Insurance Authority decision to categorise non-EEA students studying here on courses of more than one academic year as ordinarily resident for the purposes of the health insurance Acts; the impact this will have on the ability of third-level institutions...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Defence Action Plan (8 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 34. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the proposed European defence fund constitutes funding from the EU budget being spent in a manner that has military or defence implications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29130/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 71. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his views on whether businesses which were denied funding as part of the restart grant due to the fact it was oversubscribed prior to the deadline date should not be able to avail of the original €2,000 in view of the fact additional funding has been made available in the form of the restart plus grant; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Research and Development (8 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 72. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his views on whether Ireland is adequately investing in research and development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25959/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will take those four seconds. I share the Minister's vision and very much look forward to working with him on all the topics mentioned in his statement. I know he understands there are a number of pressing questions I must ask. The first concerns the 8,000 students who did a leaving certificate in 2018 and 2019 who were severely disadvantaged because the CAO access points increased so...