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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the payment system for school transport will reopen to allow students to purchase school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22564/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional school transport will be provided to cover the 50% capacity currently on school transport; if so, when Bus Éireann will communicate same to the school bus operators in view of the fact schools have already resumed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22565/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she has put in place to fund the salaries of ancillary staff for schools that were subject to the independent arbitration process which granted them a 10% increase between 2016 and 2019; and the status of discussions for a follow-on claim from the 2015 pay agreement between her Department, the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 845. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of expanding eligibility for mature independents maintenance grants to include all mature applicants that have been forced to live with their parents for financial reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22674/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes (8 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the 35,000 further and higher education places announced in the July stimulus package; the estimated cost of each place; the breakdown of the number of places between further and higher education; when the first additional new place will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21739/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Functions (8 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role his Department will play in terms of direct research funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21740/20]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 856. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Cassells report has been sent to the European Commission for review; when he expects the Commission to respond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21741/20]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 858. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of each student enrolled as an undergraduate full-time, part-time, remote and FETAC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21744/20]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 875. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions in place for those with learning difficulties if all third level education is to be online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22558/20]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: 876. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2020 if the student contribution charge was reduced by €100, €200, €500, €1000 and €3000, respectively. [22616/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (8 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 976. To ask the Minister for Health if sufficient financial supports will be put in place for student nurses that are unable to work whilst on placement; if consideration will be given to increasing the financial supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22140/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (8 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1024. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the private ambulance tender for the HSE framework; if there will be a new tendering process to allow private ambulances service providers currently outside of the HSE framework to apply; if so, when the tendering process will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21201/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1380. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the report on the management of Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 cases at Mayo University that was produced between June and July, 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22497/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1393. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions in place for staff who are pregnant and cannot return to work due to having to use excessive sanitisers and disinfectants; if a Covid-19 payment will be introduced to cover loss of earnings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22560/20]

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will share time with Deputy Ó Laoghaire. I am encouraged by what the Minister and Minister of State have said today, on which I have some questions. Will they make a clear commitment to implement option 1 of the Cassells report which requires substantial increases in the level of State funding? Pushing the ever-increasing fees and escalating costs on to students and their families...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for appearing at the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response yesterday. At the outset I want to acknowledge all of the hard work that has been done by principals, teachers, caretakers, secretaries and boards of management in all the schools. I thank them all and wish them well for the future. I must return to the issue of school transport because I am not sure that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and statements. I am sorry but I am used to standing up in the Seanad Chamber, where Members all stood up to speak. The real stand-out line for me is from Fórsa, which is that it can state to the committee that a significant number of staff today are providing personal care to students without adequate PPE. Have we learned nothing from the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The five minutes will be gone.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On Fórsa representatives meeting representatives of the Department, did they bring clarity to the situation yesterday?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is the Department aware that there are cases where one bus services several different schools, including those with special needs students, who have not been asked to wear face coverings? Based on my information from teachers, it would be helpful if people, including young people with special needs, were asked to wear face coverings unless they had a medical reason not to do so. I do not...