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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 336. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all the HSE owned buildings in counties Longford and Westmeath that are currently for sale or going through a defined process to facilitate a sale. [50910/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I want to return to the attacks on the global summit flotilla that occurred last night. This was actually the second attack on this flotilla. It includes more than 20 Irish 20 citizens, including my colleague, Senator Chris Andrews, who told me this morning that his boat was attacked four times last night. Those attacks are a wilful intimidation and an act of aggression against a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Mr. Watt, Mr. Gloster and their teams are very welcome. I thank them for being here today. I am going to get straight into the questions because we do not have an unlimited amount of time. I have three questions in respect of capital expenditure, services and waiting lists. The waiting list question relates to gynaecology waiting lists, and specifically outpatient gynaecology waiting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Okay. On that specific point, what does Mr. Gloster intend to do with the information that the HSE receives where those recommendations are not accepted, for example by the local CDNT?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Can this committee be confident that Mr. Gloster will correlate that data and provide it to the committee if requested?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I have a final question on this issue but I am conscious of time. Will the complaints mechanism be open to parents where they have experience of a recommendation not being adhered to by the HSE because that recommendation came from a private provider paid for by the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Where there is a clearly identified pressure of resources would that, in Mr. Gloster's opinion, be a reasonable excuse for a local CDNT not to accept a recommendation?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (24 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 152. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when funding will be allocated for the establishment of the community neurorehabilitation team in the midlands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50960/25]

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Families across the country are at breaking point and people are being hammered with sky-high costs every which way they turn, from rent, to food, to fuel and to insurance, and now they will be forced to pay hundreds of euro more on energy bills. We already have the highest energy prices in Europe and families are paying on average €500 more than households anywhere else - money they...

Education (Affordable School Uniforms) Bill 2025: First Stage (23 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: The cost of children returning to school is an annual issue. Year in, year out a consistent theme from my constituency of Longford-Westmeath is the cost of uniforms, but never so much as this year as families grapple with the cost of living. The current system, as Deputy O'Rourke said, embeds avoidable expenses. The CCPC's recent investigation urging generic uniforms and a competitive...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (23 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current average waiting time for a driving test in Longford-Westmeath, broken down by test centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49934/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (23 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 719. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he or any member of Government plans on attending a protest (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49681/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (18 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the policy of the RSA and the NDLS with regard to the requirement for an eyesight report when renewing or replacing a driving licence; the circumstances under which such a report is required, particularly in cases where a driver has recently renewed their licence without the need for one; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 341. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a timeline for the CHI's and HSE's plans for developing a sustainable and robust psychological support service for the families being reviewed for developmental dysplasia of the hip surgery, DDH. [49367/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (18 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when ETB employees who accepted adult educator contracts will be moved to the appropriate point on the salary scale; when all back pay owing to these employees will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49484/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the Leap card fare system to areas like Mullingar, and beyond, in order to deliver fairer and more affordable access to public transports to people outside of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47876/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the number of applications for school transport in counties Westmeath and Longford for the 2025-2026 academic year; the number of pupils who were issued a bus ticket under the scheme; and the number of pupils who were refused a place. [47728/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the number of applications for school transport in the 2025-2026 academic year; the number of pupils who were issued a bus ticket under the scheme; and the number of pupils who were refused a place, per county, in tabular form. [47729/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing applications currently under appeal in Westmeath County Council. [48729/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (17 Sep 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current policies and supports available for tenants who fall into rent arrears; the procedures in place to ensure that vulnerable families are not put at risk of homelessness due to missed payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48776/25]