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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for attending. This is one of the rare occasions when I agree with everything that people on the other side of the room have said. I make no apologies for that. I love STEM. The witnesses can ask Deputy Farrell, who is sitting beside me. I am an unrepentant geek. However, it takes more than being a geek to have an interest in STEM subjects. I was delighted to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Professor McCormack spoke about the societal and cultural bias and the conscious and unconscious elements of that. I sat on the Joint Committee on Gender Equality, which reported just before Christmas. This was an area of which the citizens' assembly recommended further examination. One issue that came through strongly at the Joint Committee on Gender Equality related to the fact we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for joining us. Mr. Scattergood hit the nail on the head when speaking about the routes through education and to a career. We do not live in a society – if we are honest with ourselves, we have not done so for quite some time – where someone’s route through school and college looks like a motorway. In the majority of cases, it looks like a country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: It is a type of unconscious bias.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Looking back over his training, both on-site and academic, does Mr. Bermingham see any areas in which there needs to be improvement or things that can be done better?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: It should not come down to luck as to where people are sent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: The concern I have regarding a student having the option to do a subject outside of school is that as there is also a student who does not have that option, we are further embedding inequality. Parents have to have access to the resources, to the transport and to the time. There is an additional pressure put on those who are least in a position to be able to meet those additional asks of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill: Discussion (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Cathaoirleach for his hospitality in allowing me to contribute. It is wonderful to see the witnesses back in the Oireachtas. The more they are here, the better we will drive the message home that DSGBV by anyone against anyone is no longer tolerable in any shape or form. I believe it was Ms Counihan who mentioned Athlone. That issue comes across my desk regularly – my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill: Discussion (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill: Discussion (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I am unsure as to who is best placed to answer my next question. Independent oversight of any agency is necessary, but particularly this new one. Is there international best practice that we should be emulating? Has any other country done this work and put in place an independent oversight mechanism to ensure that not only does funding go where it needs to, but that key targets are being...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has contacted the new leader of the Scottish National Party, Mr. Humza Yousaf, with a view to meeting with him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16456/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the recently released 2023 report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which calls for emissions to be reduced by half by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16455/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering aligning the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages for primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16827/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the profound difficulties experienced with the school transport system in 2022, the changes she plans to introduce for primary, post primary, children with special education needs and the special transport grant for the upcoming 2023/2024 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17765/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Counties Longford and Westmeath that have had school buildings/refurbishment/extension works approved; and the number of those approved works that are delayed at present, in tabular form. [16477/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 1043. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review in its entirety the application under the regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrants scheme by a person (details supplied). [18262/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 1471. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that healthcare assistants who are qualified above QQI level 5 do not need to repeat or obtain a QQI level 5 qualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16825/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 1421. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the mobile breast screening units that will not return to Mullingar and Athlone until the end of 2023, the number of women who were scheduled to attend these units for screening who will now have to make the trip to Tullamore to avail of this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16658/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 1472. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who provide services under the general medical card scheme, by county, in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [16826/23]