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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: This is a significant gap. What engagement has the Minister or the Department had with ETBs around the provision of the wider body of PLC courses which could be available? This is an area which is involved in the midlands regional transitional programme and there is absolutely scope there for the development of other PLC courses. My first question, therefore, is what engagement has the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Yet there is nothing on the list of current provided courses to do e-vehicles, EV.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Yes, do so please, because as an ETB with nine schools, only two of them are providing PLC courses. Some of the schools in that ETB are in very rural areas where the alternative delivery of education would not exist outside of Mullingar, Longford town or Athlone, which also has the technological university. The options for education would be quite limited. There seems to me to be a very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Even with regard to the midlands regional task force, I was talking to Ms Lavery recently at one of the IBEC briefings and this is why it seems to me to be so anomalous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Yes, they were applying for a SUSI grant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: -----and equated to a chronic waste of time. The final question I wish to put to the Minister relates to Longford and Westmeath Education and Training Board, LWETB. I asked the Minister a parliamentary question last week on the available post leaving certificate, PLC, options. I happen to be a big believer in PLCs which are one of those fundamental pathways for people to go on to various...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (23 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to extend teacher training in the Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone. [2991/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are any plans for the relocation of people seeking international protection to a building (details supplied) on the Main Street in Edgeworthstown, County Longford. [2584/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (18 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has undergone any research that explores the impact of accommodation (lack of) on student retention rate. [1923/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (18 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what the increase is in PLC places for 2024 across Longford-Westmeath ETB; and what new areas in PLCs will be available for 2024. [1921/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he has in place to ensure that one-third of higher education teaching staff do not leave Ireland (details supplied). [1922/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (18 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to extend teacher training in the Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone. [2685/24]

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I was struck by something Deputy Bríd Smith said about the wording of a women's place in the home in the Constitution. I was reminded of somebody who, in my formative years, said that never was a single sentence more responsible for the paving of ways and opening of doors of feminist centres across the country. If she were here to see this, she would agree. It is important to note,...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Quality, not quantity.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: It is rare that I comment on other contributor's words in this House but I cannot let one of the sentences that was uttered a moment ago go. I will not go out at the beginning of March to blow off steam in a ballot box. I will go out to think about all of those families that somehow were considered less in our Constitution and less in law because of that. It is about the likes of Johnny...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will invoke the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in relation to the activities of Israel in Palestine since October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1002/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Legislative Measures (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will enact the Occupied Territories Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1000/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 339. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will enact the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1001/24]