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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Almost two years ago, I stood in this House and said that housing was the real test for this Government and that it had failed and failed spectacularly, undermining our health and education systems and businesses while pushing another generation to emigrate. The only thing that has changed in the interim is that it has managed to get worse under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The Sinn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Chair for obliging Deputy Buckley and I so we can be here. It is much appreciated. We are not going to get anywhere constructive, and it is indeed quite futile, to be having discussions at this juncture about what a report is or is not titled. We are here to discuss the report. We have witnesses here to outline their opinion on it. It is also important to say that if the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I will direct a question to Dr. Lyons and Mr. O'Flynn. I listened to what both of them outlined. I understand the content of the second report. I think Mr. O'Flynn referred to the cost and this being an unnecessary step. Outside of the financial cost, does he place any value on what Dr. Casey said about assessing the reasonableness of any Government policy? What negative outcome could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I agree with Mr. O'Flynn on the last point. Housing needs to be fixed pretty pronto for a growing number of people. However, I am cognisant of the fact that those who have been failed by successive policies are the ones who most need faith and trust to be restored in Government policy. By putting this amendment to a referendum, does he place any value on them receiving the additional trust...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank Dr. Lyons and the Chair. I did not realise I was so far over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I nominate Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Financial Supports for Tertiary Level Students: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for coming and apologise for the delay, which was entirely on the committee's side and not theirs. I want USI's opinion on the assessment of income of parents of a learner. There was a very unusual circumstance that first brought this to my attention a number of years ago and it involved twins who were learners heading off to college. They had not lived with their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Financial Supports for Tertiary Level Students: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I wish to ask a subsequent question. A considerable number of years ago, another circumstance presented to me, where the step-parent income was not taken into account. Is that still the case and how common is it? If that is the case, then it is not being assessed on household income. The income of the mother of the child was taken into the account but the mother’s husband’s...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister and I welcome her and her officials. My questions cover a number of different areas, so I do not know if she wants to take them as a block or one by one. Will the Minister outline to the committee what impact, if any, the Supplementary Estimate will have on the pay and conditions of school secretaries and caretakers? Will she also outline what, if any, impact the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The school transport funding costs and subhead A15.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: On subhead A15, infrastructure.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I am conscious-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: It is just that it seems such a broad heading. I ask, through the Chair, that the Department come back with a greater breakdown of what it is. "Infrastructure" is a very general term.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Yes, but the Minister also said "remediation works". Equipment and furniture are mentioned here.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide school bus escorts with any updates on their pay and conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42406/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason she has not replied to a known survivor campaigner (details supplied), who has been in regular communication since 1 September prior to the publication of the Scoping Inquiry into Historical Sexual Abuse in Schools run by religious orders report; to explain, while progressing the next steps in an inquiry or tribunal or commission...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of "posts of responsibility" in primary schools and post-primary schools respectively in 2008 compared to the number in 2024; and the estimated additional cost of restoring the number of such posts to their pre-recession levels. [42887/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers allocated to primary schools in 2024; and the number of teachers that would need to be allocated to primary schools in 2029, assuming the current pupil teacher ratio was to be maintained in 2029. [42888/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that full incremental credit is not awarded to post-primary teachers for their experience working abroad in jurisdictions such as Australia and Dubai; the estimated additional cost of extending full incremental credit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42889/24]