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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: There are good working relationships 99% of the time between schools and the NCSE when it comes to opening ASD classes. The same can be said for this specific school in Athlone, which already has an ASD class in its Gaelscoil. However, the Minister of State is familiar with the 2022 document entitled "Autism Good Practice Guidance for Schools", which clearly states that autistic students...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an updated list of all primary and post-primary schools that have been sanctioned for an ASD class for the 2025-26 school year. [39382/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I want to ask in particular about the schools in which these works are ongoing but yet to be completed and by which a letter of suppression has been received.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I cannot accept what the Minister of State has said to me. I know what he has said to be untrue. I am happy to share information with him after this session. I have stood in a school in Athlone - Scoil na gCeithre Máistrí - that was approached by the NCSE to open a second ASD class. I stood in the classroom. The plaster was drying on the wall when the letter of suppression came...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 538. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women in Ireland with endometriosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40354/25]

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Pride is about continuing solidarity with the members of the LGBT community we are lucky enough to call friends, privileged enough to call family and also the wider community. It is also about remembering how far that community has come, how we got here and why we, as a collective, must never take the progress made for granted. The LGBT+ community has in the past been a painful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: ACT Smartphone App: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Congratulations and the best of luck in Osaka and Latvia. Often when it comes to the development of apps and innovative use of technology, we find ourselves looking at those who came up with the idea thinking it was just something they stumbled upon. None of you give that impression at all. Not only are you all very capable young women but you are startlingly intelligent. You have a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of services for endometriosis assessment and treatment at Mullingar Regional Hospital; if a specialised multidisciplinary team is in place; if diagnostic imaging and laparoscopy procedures are available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39886/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 251. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on current waiting times for endometriosis related services at Mullingar Regional Hospital; the number of patients awaiting each stage of care; and the way in which these waiting times compare with the national average. [39887/25]

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: While the establishment of the long-overdue commission of investigation cannot but be welcomed, I will not, in good conscience, applaud a process that has taken far too long to come into being. I think today particularly of the older survivors I have met and engaged with. They expressed to me how they felt through the years that the State was waiting for them to die, hoping time would erase...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Tuarascáil Bhliantúil 2024 agus Caighdeán na Seirbhísí Poiblí Dátheangacha: Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga (15 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Much to my embarrassment, I do not have a lot of Irish. I apologise profusely. I am not quite there yet to be able to ask this question sufficiently through Irish. I do not want my inability to have an impact on the question. Is the coimisinéir aware of a document, Autism Good Practice Guidance For Schools, that the Government published in 2022? It states: Autistic students whose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Tuarascáil Bhliantúil 2024 agus Caighdeán na Seirbhísí Poiblí Dátheangacha: Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga (15 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gcoimisinéir. I will be in contact.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (15 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he intends to take to address the decline of 20% in taxi driver numbers in Longford and the 11.75% decline in Westmeath since 2019, according to NTA figures; and if he will increase the number of licensed taxi driver and vehicle supply to support the urban, rural and night-time economies, by at least 30% from 2023 levels by...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tourism Policy (15 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 410. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to develop additional tourism infrastructure in Mullingar to maximise the economic and cultural potential of its connection to the royal canal greenway and old rail trail greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38868/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 884. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the copper coil is not covered under the free contraception scheme; if she plans on making it free in the near future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38866/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (15 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 885. To ask the Minister for Health the clinical or policy grounds the copper coil was excluded from the initial rollout of the free contraception scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38867/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 895. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to ensure migrant women, including those in direct provision, can access the free contraception scheme without barriers related to GP registration, language, documentation status and other related issues. [38890/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, regarding payments requested from parents for children in primary school, if a school may charge a mandatory fee; if the amount being charged in a school (details supplied) is acceptable; if the full fee is not paid, whether the school can withhold group activities like tin-whistle lessons from a child; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools, including their ethos, who have received suppression of special class notices to date in 2025, including the number of these classes, in tabular form per county; to include those which were due to open for the school year 2025/2026, the maximum capacity of each and the financial expenditure incurred to date in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the special education or ASD classes sanctioned in 2024 and 2025, including those who have received suppression notices, the cost of all forms of consultancy fees associated with each individual sanctioned rooms or classes. [38404/25]