Results 941-960 of 4,343 for speaker:Sorca Clarke
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: This is an area where teachers have been particularly to the fore over the last ten or 15 years. The nature table is almost a thing of the past. Pupils now go out into nature and see it for themselves. I am very fortunate to live in an area where we have good biodiversity. There are many bogs around the area. These are wonderful places. It is good to see the younger children in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I want to go back to the STEM implementation plan. When is the next review of that due?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I refer just to the implementation plan. When is the next review due?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: When will the next one be published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: That is the next progress report, but what about the annual review of the plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: But Ms O'Connor said there was an annual -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: When is the next one due?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: Later this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I wish to follow up on the response by Ms Hope to the question on student accommodation posed by the Chairman. My colleague, Deputy Mairéad Farrell, has been very active on this issue over recent months. I wonder how effective the Department will be, given that the vast majority of student accommodation is privately owned. Last February, Trinity, DCU and UCD combined had 5,600 units...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: What impact can the Department have on the decarbonisation and retrofitting of the accommodation that is privately owned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: What about the existing supply?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I appreciate that, but considering the vast difference that is there at the moment and the length of time construction takes, there will be a reliance on private supply for the foreseeable future in many areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: Is it the case that there has not been any engagement with the owners? Has there been any engagement with them to see if they have plans to upgrade the accommodation that is there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: Has any commitment been given by any of these investors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: No.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: 338.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Korean is being considered as a Leaving Certificate subject. [25381/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: 339.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria considered when introducing a foreign language as a Leaving Certificate subject and if there is a threshold in terms of student numbers. [25382/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: 489.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to explain why schools, newly designated as DEIS in 2022, are solely eligible either for a hot meal (if they are a primary school) or a cold lunch (if they are a post-primary school) and not for a breakfast club; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25451/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: 490.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria determining the declining of funding for a breakfast club for the six DEIS Urban Band 1 schools. [25452/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: 837.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of new GPs in Kinnegad, Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25309/24]