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Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I welcome this amendment. It is incredibly positive. For far too long those who have lived and who have endured domestic abuse have seen that abuse in other areas outside of the family home. To think that it could be extended to somebody who is suffering with their mental health is absolutely deplorable. This amendment is a good one and we will certainly support it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Chair and all our guests for coming in today. This Bill has been a long time coming, even to Committee Stage. I have several questions for each of the groups so I will ask each question specifically to the groups and they may respond. If they wish to respond to another question they think may be relevant to their area, please feel free to do so. I will do this in the order in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Yes. I will go back to the questions from the previous round. I have no real additional questions to ask. Rather, I have a comment on the appropriateness of young adults being in accident and emergency departments. I do not think anybody agrees that an accident and emergency department, no more than a police station, is the place for somebody in profound mental health distress to be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Would the witnesses like to comment on my question from the previous round concerning what an independent complaints mechanism would look like?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I also asked previously about the authorised officer unit, how this would be seen as working and the staffing of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I apologise for interrupting but I have an eye on the clock. In this regard, am I correct that by not being limited by county boundaries and being able to cluster services, there would be a specialised unit that would have a pool of authorised officers to pull from if and when the need arose?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved centres, the number of acute approved centres, the number of in-patient beds, and the number of children admitted to adult inpatient psychiatry wards in the past five years, in tabular form. [31210/25]

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I was going to start by saying there is nothing more insulting to families languishing on the housing list than the sight of an empty house. The Minister of State found a new insult when he stood up and said his policies are working. I tip my hat to him for having more faces than Clerys clock when it comes to the housing crisis. Every single one of those boarded-up houses is a constant...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Consumer Protection (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 440. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budget allocation to Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [28912/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what funding or grants schools can avail of to update their library space. [29214/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of school funding in 2024 and 2025, per county, in tabular form. [30535/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE departmental staff by grade that are currently dealing with carer's allowance applications. [28913/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost if the qualified child allowance for children aged under 12 increased to €55 per week and for children aged over 12 increased to €72 per week. [28914/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 967. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí, by rank attached to Mayo/Roscommon and Longford divisional protective services unit as of 26 May 2025. [28901/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 968. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prison officers that retired from Irish Prison Service in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [28902/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 969. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí, by rank attached to Meath/Westmeath roads policing unit as of 26 May 2025. [28915/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1086. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the 2024 capital budget allocation for works under the Fisheries Harbour Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme; and if any underspent of the 2024 funding was transferred to the 2025 budget allocation. [28906/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1087. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated full year cost to recruit three additional WTE agricultural inspectors and three additional WTE veterinary inspectors for his Department. [28907/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Inquiries (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date for when a person's (details supplied) knowledge transfer group details will be cleared for payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30033/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 1145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE physiotherapists, by grade working in Longford children's disability network team in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [28903/25]