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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Does Mr Gloucester have any indication as to the extent to which that is happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: It was a response to a parliamentary question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Is Mr. Mulvany disputing the €93 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Let me ask the question again. Of the outsourced mental health budget provided by the State, what are the services that are being provided and who are the biggest providers of those services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Supplementary to that, how much of that money is spent on eating disorder treatments in the UK?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Okay. When outsourcing of mental health care is provided, what metrics are used to compare the value for money or the cost per patient being provided with the necessary care through a private provider versus the equivalent level of care in the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I tend to be of the same opinion, although I would like to see it provided through our public system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: With regard to adult ADHD services and their funding, how effective are they when compared with the level of demand presenting to those services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Does Mr. Gloster envisage any change in criteria for accessing these adult ADHD services, given the current level of demand?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses. I will launch straight into questions because we have lost four minutes compared with previous commentators. I want to follow up on something Mr. Gloster touched on regarding insourcing and outsourcing for assessment of needs. In response to a query put to it about a tender taking eight months to get a reply, the HSE advised it wanted to look at this and that it...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of Ireland’s GNI allocated to official development aid in 2024. [36483/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 7. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a breakdown of Ireland’s official development aid spending in 2024, between bilateral and multilateral channels, including funding to international organisations such as the UN, EU and the World Bank. [36484/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of Ireland’s official development aid in 2024 allocated to climate adaption and mitigation programmes in low-income countries; and whether this is additional to the existing aid budget, as per international commitments. [36485/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of Ireland’s official development aid in 2024 allocated to global health initiatives, sexual and reproductive health, and gender equality programmes, per region, in tabular form. [36486/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the current annual cost of the Local Link programme in rural areas; and if any assessments have been done on its effectiveness in reducing social isolation for older people and people with disabilities. [36482/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average waiting time for a child with ASD to be allocated a place in a special class, including the length of time children are waiting on their local school’s SNA and resources list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36446/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average waiting time for social housing allocation in each local authority in 2024 and 2025; and the average length of stay in emergency homelessness accommodation. [36445/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average processing time for join family visa applications made by non-EU spouses of Irish citizens; and his Department’s plans to address current backlogs. [36442/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 215. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the current waiting time for children’s therapy services, speech and language, occupational therapy, physiotherapy under the early intervention scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36444/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for general adult psychological counselling, including HSE primary care psychology and GPs referring to mental health services; and the steps being taken to reduce waits to within three months. [36443/25]