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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider extending paternity leave to longer than two weeks. [46464/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to address the unequal burden of unpaid care work, which often falls on women. [46502/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1163. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to encourage more men to take paternity leave and share care-giving responsibilities, in order to reduce the gendered impact on career progression. [46503/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth besides gender pay gap reporting, what steps his Department is taking to close the gender pay gap; and how his Department plans to ensure equal pay for equal work across all sectors. [46493/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1159. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can provide data on how the gender pay gap varies across different sectors, industries and levels of seniority. [46499/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a specific group in particular that faces the greatest gender pay disparities (for example, women with disabilities, migrant women, and LGBTQ+ persons). [46500/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1161. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans on extending the reporting of gender pay gaps to smaller businesses. [46501/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1164. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how he plans to monitor and evaluate progress on gender pay equality; and what metrics will be used to measure success. [46504/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures Government is taking to support single mothers in balancing work and caregiving responsibilities, especially in relation to affordable childcare and social supports. [46495/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department’s top priorities for advancing women’s rights in the next five years. [46497/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1158. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how his Department measures progress on gender equality and women’s rights; and how his Department plans on holding itself accountable for meeting its goals. [46498/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the pilots for enhanced in-school therapy supports in the 16 special schools in Dublin and Cork; and if he will provide the number of extra speech and language therapists and occupational therapists, per school, who are working in those schools because of the pilot, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the targeted measures that are in place in Westmeath and Longford to support foreign nationals who are facing difficulties accessing local services due to lack of local resources. [46732/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1183. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department is taking to encourage social and cultural exchange between locals and foreign nationals in Longford and Westmeath to reduce any potential social tensions or isolation. [46733/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures his Department is taking to address the specific challenges foreign nationals face regarding language barriers in schools, workplaces and in the community as a whole in Longford and Westmeath. [46734/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being put in place to ensure that rural communities are supported and adaptable to demographic change, given the increasing diversity in rural areas. [46736/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Projects (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1212. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will act to excavate the site at Sean Ross Abbey and fully investigate the burial grounds. [1142/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1243. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 40% of survivors have been excluded from full mother and baby institutional redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1423/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1244. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will amend the eligibility criteria for the mother and baby homes redress scheme. [1424/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (22 Jan 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1334. To ask the Minister for Health the number of international recruitment fairs to the UK where officials from Mullingar Regional Hospital were present seeking to recruit additional doctors, physiotherapists, nurses and so on to work in the hospital in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [46367/24]