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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: These questions are grouped.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Seven weeks ago, the Tánaiste stood in this Chamber and confirmed to me he was to receive the report that afternoon. Has the Tánaiste brought the report to the Attorney General? Has the Attorney General brought it back to him? Has the Tánaiste brought the report to his Cabinet colleagues? Will he engage with the stakeholders? Has he reached out to the stakeholders who were...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: No.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I agree with Deputy Connolly when she speaks of trust. For many years these women and others who have engaged in this process had their abuse belittled. They had their rapes, sexual assaults and all of those negative experiences belittled. In fact some of them were actually gaslighted in their own reporting of this. Nobody in this House disagrees with the statement that this is wrong....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps that have been taken to date regarding the Workplace Relations Commission ruling in December 2020 to roll out anti-discrimination training course and materials for all Defence Forces personnel with staff responsibilities due to be completed by the end of 2022. [13839/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Can the Minister provide an update on the steps that have been taken to date on the work regarding the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, ruling in December 2020 to roll out anti-discrimination training courses and materials to all Defence Forces personnel with staff responsibilities, which was due to be completed by the end of 2022?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister for that update. I have repeatedly asked this question over the past number of years and on the most recent occasion, I was told that this ruling was currently being implemented. There seems to be a substantial amount of greater detail in the answer he provided this time, which leads me to believe that this, while still a work in progress, is one that is nearing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: The WRC ruling was quite powerful. An unacceptable systemic failure was found. From what the Minister said, I believe he agrees with that ruling. Ms O'Rourke was awarded the maximum compensation plus interest by the WRC due to the extensive delay caused by the Minister for Defence objecting to her legal argument that EU law should apply and not withdrawing the objection until the eleventh...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: But specifically on objections to the WRC.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 484. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide further details on the plan recently announced in the media, of a scheme similar to the tenant in situ for households that are above the social housing income limits. [13538/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the Phase 1 application from December 2022 by a school (details supplied) for proposed essential works to this growing school where places are in increasing demand. [12615/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the application by a school (details supplied) for the urgent provision of additional accommodation, which the school was informed in December 2022 was in the final stage of its assessment given the nature of the application. [12616/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (21 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 722. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children from Ukraine currently living in Mullingar, County Westmeath who are availing of school transport and to which school, in tabular form. [13262/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 859. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of letters issued to recipients of any payments authorised by her Department, per month in the years 2022 to date in 2023, and all associated costs, requesting the recipient transfer to bank payment from collection via the Post Office Network, in tabular form. [13875/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (21 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 1024. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the issue of pension provision for research staff grades who do not have access to public service pensions in higher education Institutions, particularly in relation to the technological university sector (details supplied). [13110/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 1457. To ask the Minister for Health when the mobile BreastCheck unit last operated in Mullingar; the reason it will not return to this highly populated area until late in 2023, given that the journey to Tullamore is a 40km roundtrip with irregular and infrequent transport links. [13577/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way a person (details supplied) can adequately complete a disability allowance application. [14445/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what engagement her Department has had with a school (details supplied) regarding behaviour analyst funding, given that the funding for this post has not been amended since 2005. [15145/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills is she will ensure that a school (details supplied) is provided with earlier confirmation of funding for its behaviour analyst for the upcoming school year as the current process of the school being informed in May, a matter of weeks before the end of the school year, is making it increasingly difficult to fill these positions and plan for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve the request for the behaviour analyst post at a school (details supplied) to be made permanent. [15147/23]