Results 1-20 of 22 for cork speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...that needs to be in this area, there are some opportunities as well under PEACEPLUS around the exchange between local authorities across the island. We should have women's groups in Mayo, Cork or different counties able to exchange with communities in the North and have a framework and the academic involvement. The action research we gather in all of this is hugely important. That it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...or can local community groups engage directly with Pobal and the special EU programmes body? Will the witnesses explain that process? If there is a women's group watching today from County Cork, how does it go about engaging with the special EU programmes body? I went on the portal while the witnesses were talking. I advise everybody to sign up to the portal to get the information and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (28 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...with him a number of times. Will the Minister of State provide an update on the flood relief scheme for Crossmolina? People have seen damage to their homes and lives, just like the businesses in Cork, Galway and other places. They remember the destruction the community faced in 2015. When will construction commence on the River Deel flood relief scheme?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, given the recent events in Cork, he will outline the steps he is taking to deliver flood relief schemes in order to protect residents, businesses, and local communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47040/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Do any others want to speak to that? What strikes me from what Mr. Reidy said is that somebody from Cork should be guaranteed the same rights as somebody from Belfast and vice versaand that people living on the island should know that they have a certain set of rights.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2019 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...research and development, we know the technological universities have not fulfilled their potential and we need to look at what they need in order to be able to do so. We know those in Waterford, Cork and Dublin have probably been the best performers but only 0.2% of Ireland's total, or €1.9 million, has been drawn down by the combination of the Atlantic Technological University....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre (9 Dec 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...Birmingham. To have to wait 50 years to bury your loved ones is not right. I think that everybody will come out of this meeting with a renewed focus on what we can all do, whether it is in Mayo, Cork, or any other part of the country, to try to bring some kind of relief to the three families who are still waiting. I hear what Ms Maria Lynskey said about her sister being 86 years old....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Dec 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the anticipated opening date for the enrolment for the three additional retrofit centres of excellence in counties Cork, Limerick, Clare, Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim; the location and anticipated enrolment capacity in each centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60626/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Examinations (30 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand some colleges, such as University College Cork, have moved all their exams online. I spoke to a number of students from Waterford last night who were told they cannot be facilitated in doing their exams remotely. The issue here is that students do not feel safe or comfortable entering an exam hall with hundreds of other students and students do not want to defer these exams....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (16 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the public sector benchmark for the Cork School of Music; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56097/21]

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...of regional and local roads across the State provide vital connectivity to rural Ireland; — the State’s regional airports carried 5.45 million passengers in 2019 and reports from 2016 and 2019 demonstrate that Cork, Shannon and Ireland West Airports generate a combined annual €2.13 billion to the economy and support directly or indirectly 29,050 jobs; — our...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...full fees of €6,000, and €12,000 for accommodation. One of them is getting one afternoon a week on a Tuesday as in-person face-to-face learning at Munster Technological University, MTU, on its Cork campus and initial professional development for four hours on a Monday and five hours on a Thursday. That is not consistent with what the Minister is telling me, and I have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Irish Central Border Area Network (22 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...concern is the huge potential along the western seaboard, going right up to the North, around and down in terms of the western rail corridor and the arc there from Rosslare connecting Waterford and Cork and continuing on to Limerick and Foynes. There is enormous potential there in terms of tourism development and freight. How do the witnesses see that fitting in with the work they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (26 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...while, in the South, students from the North make up less than 1% of the student population. We must ask why that is. It takes the same time to travel to Belfast from Mayo as it does to Dublin or Cork. We know many of the reasons. There is a difference in the admission systems, an inequity between A level and leaving certificate grades, and a lack of information for students and...

New Decade, New Approach Agreement: Statements (24 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...students from the North make up fewer than 1% of enrolments here. This represents a complete failure of our young people. Going to university in Belfast should be the same as going to college in Cork. There needs to be one application system for colleges for all students across the island. The development of a technology university in the west and north west is an opportunity for us to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Expansion of Technological Universities: Discussion (16 Feb 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...rest for private companies. Am I right in saying that less than 10% of that total, or €53.7 million, has gone to institutes of technology and, of that modest amount, almost all of it went to Waterford, Cork and Dublin? To highlight the issue further, the institutes that make up the Connacht-Ulster alliance, namely, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology Sligo...