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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 91. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that he and his Department have given to the requests by an organisation (details supplied) for a new contract to replace the existing 23-year-old contract for public eye-care and for the expansion of services accessed in the community. [26033/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Code (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give consideration to abolishing the extra administrative charges applied to motorists who renew their motor tax every three or every six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27178/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will implement both a widening of the eligibility criteria and an increase in the amount paid under the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance given the enormous rise in the cost of living. [27180/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 390. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement a review of Ireland's maternity hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27179/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Defibrillators Provision (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 435. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports that are available to rural communities for the purchase, maintenance and upgrade of defibrillators. [27177/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Before we begin, members now have the option of being physically present in the committee room or may join via Microsoft Teams from their Leinster House offices. Members may not participate in the meeting from outside of the parliamentary precincts. If joining on Teams, I ask members to mute their microphones when not speaking and use the raise-hand function to indicate. I ask members to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank Dr. Barry for her comprehensive opening statement. I invite Professor Murphy to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I will now open the meeting up to members. As I said previously, they can also participate virtually. There are number of members participating through Microsoft Teams. I should also state that while Deputy Bacik is not participating, she is on Teams and will be keeping an eye on proceedings as Cathaoirleach. I ask members to indicate that they wish to contribute through the raised hand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Senator Warfield has had to leave. I have a couple of questions from him and a couple from me. I believe the following questions from Senator Warfield are for Dr. Murphy. She spoke of the UNICEF target of 1% of GDP spend on childcare. What is the social and the economic cost of not acting on that recommendation? We always speak of these things as being a cost, but what is the cost of not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: It might have been my delivery of that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: There was a very specific reason I asked that question. There is a man in my constituency who I would know quite well whose career is a carer. That is his job and what he does. He would also have caring responsibilities outside of his job. However, his employer has come to him repeatedly to take on additional work because the clients they work with, particularly older men, would prefer to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Would Deputy McAuliffe like to ask some questions before I go back to Senator Higgins?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: We are not going to have a repeat of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: We will return to Senator Higgins. Does she have supplementary questions she would like to put to our witnesses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: That is brilliant. I will ask one final question before I bring the meeting to a close. I would like to touch on the €2.4 billion in tax relief for pensions and the €15 billion Professor Murphy mentioned. This might be going slightly outside the frame of today's discussion. What is Professor Murphy's opinion on the importance of gender-based budgeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank Professor Murphy. On behalf of the committee, I thank everyone for their time and their engagement today. It has been very proactive and will help the committee in its considerations when it produces its report.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: For almost a year and a half now, Charles Murray in Athlone has been living in a nursing home following a stroke because his private rented accommodation is no longer suitable. Despite representations and interventions by occupational therapists, physiotherapists and a medical social worker, the response from the local authority to date has been that there are no properties available but...