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EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: One can work with them but one should not trust them.

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for his statement. While I do not wish to go over what has already been said, regardless of the outcome of the internal market Bill, and whether it is passed or not, the whole process involved has demonstrated very clearly to us what we would have already known, which is that we cannot trust the British. It should put us on a whole different level because, while...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome the Minister's announcement that he will intervene in respect of accommodation costs. I will change my question. Does he think it is fair that utility companies such as Electric Ireland are incentivising people to go online to pay their bills? People are being asked a deposit of €300 if they wish to continue paying at their post office. I am really concerned about the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a related question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that will be taken in 2020 and the resources that will be made available for the development of the western rail corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25686/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This week, Mr. Colman O'Rahilly in an editorial rightly wrote: "One stroke of the minister's pen can drive revitalisation of the entire western seaboard". Never a truer word was said. Will the western rail corridor be included in the economic plan that is currently being framed?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I agree with everything the Minister said. He does not have to sell the project to me or my colleagues in the Chamber, but we need action on it. This is a shovel-ready project and the time for tweaking and talking is over. We are impatient. We need the Minister to do what he says he will do. The reopening has been included in every plan, including the sustainable public transport...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the current situation of transport services for persons with disabilities in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26217/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 228. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 related restrictions that mean physiotherapists cannot have trainees in the room while they are seeing placement will be reviewed and change to allow for practical third level training to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26025/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 234. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for consultations with audiologists in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26039/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 239. To ask the Minister for Health when the mental health service in County Mayo will reopen, specifically a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26052/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reviewed the plans for the safe return of students to third-level education produced by individual institutions; if he is satisfied that these plans are in line with his Department guidelines published in July 2020, the HSE approval guidelines from an association (details supplied) in addition to the Living with Covid plan published...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (23 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter regarding the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25692/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. In the five minutes I have, I will confine my questions to nursing homes and third level institutions. As we speak, there are staff in nursing homes around the country testing positive for this virus. Do the witnesses believe we can avoid a second wave of Covid-19 in nursing homes and what can we do to protect the older and frail people from...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What would Dr. McConkey's key advice to the Government be to stop the spread to nursing homes? He has referred to preventing or reducing the spread in the community but apart from that, is there anything specific we can do this time around to stop what happened in nursing homes during the first wave?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will move on now to the third-level institutions. Dr. Ronan Glynn and others are telling us that Covid-19 is being disproportionately spread by younger people who are mainly asymptomatic, as was alluded to earlier. Today we heard about outbreaks in universities in Dundee and Liverpool, with 500 students in isolation in Dundee and 80 students and seven staff infected in Liverpool. Tens of...

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Bill is in many ways a step in the right direction and banks and financial institutions need to be held accountable for protecting their customers and for being scammed and facilitating illegal activity. As previously stated, this Bill is intended to transpose this fifth EU anti-money laundering directive into Irish law. The directive represents improvement in exposing the secretive...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (22 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will continue for third-level students after they enrol for college and university in view of the fact they will still have lost their jobs due to the pandemic; if so, if this will affect a grant they may be receiving; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22607/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the approximately 8,000 students that sat the leaving certificate in 2019 or before that were directly affected by the increase in entry points received and CAO offer; the number that accepted their CAO offer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24727/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (22 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific courses given extra places from the 2,225 additional third-level places; the number of courses that had unfilled places in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24780/20]