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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Meetings (28 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Minister of State with responsibility for law reform will meet a group (details supplied) as a matter of urgency in order that the views and the real concerns of license holders can be fully taken into account. [14956/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 714. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for 8-16 year olds in CHO8, per test centre, age, and the length of time on the list, in tabular form. [15237/23]

Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I commend all of those who engaged in this process, those who supported them and those who showed persistence, bravery and determination to see the Defence Forces reform and be better. They have been vindicated in this stark and harrowing report. Some of them are in the Public Gallery. I acknowledge the level of detail the independent review group delved into while conducting its work...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Last year, the Government promised to deliver 4,000 affordable homes. It failed and failed miserably. Instead, just over 1,700 homes were delivered across all affordable housing delivery streams. This is a shocking indictment and again shows that the Government is failing to ensure that people can access affordable homes to rent and to buy. Coming up to its third year in office, what my...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (19 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: If you were to believe everything you see in the media, you would almost think this country was a doughnut, in many respects, but I am here to reassure the Minister of State it is not. The midlands is experiencing the housing crisis as deeply as all the cities. How does the Minister of State intend to deal specifically with rural Ireland when it comes to the additional challenges of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (19 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: What I have heard in the Minister of State's speech is essentially what the local authorities are saying on the ground. It is not his responsibility; it is the local authority's responsibility. In the case of the local authorities they tell people they are not refusing homeless support because they have told them to go to Midlands Simon Community. That is not tangible support. People...

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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: It is a simple question. Where are people going to go?

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]