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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the budget 2024 allocation of €7 million in additional capitation grants for schools; and detail the analysis that was undertaken by her Department regarding sufficiency of this amount. [45121/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Will the Minister provide a breakdown of the budget 2024 allocation of €7 million in additional capitation grants for schools and detail the analysis undertaken by her Department regarding the sufficiency of this amount?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Does the Minister acknowledge and understand the level of dismay with which this announcement was received by those who are charged with delivering education through our school system? The €60 million she referenced is not a permanent measure; it is a once-off measure. Relying on once-off measures of a precarious nature, and precarious funding, is categorically not what teachers'...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Of that €81 million, the amount of temporary funding is three times as much as the permanent funding. It is no secret and will come as no surprise to anybody that schools as much as households are struggling with their energy and electricity bills. Schools are telling me that where they may want to end the practice of being reliant on fund-raising and voluntary contributions, and the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Everybody wants to see those ended but it means proper resourcing for schools.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Additional, from January.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Permanent.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Permanent.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the Budget 2024 allocation of €50 million for the school transport scheme between capital and revenue; and the details of additional capacity this will cater for and the priority for spending. [45122/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Can the Minister provide a breakdown to the House of the budget 2024 allocation of €50 million for the school transport scheme between capital and revenue, the details of additional capacity this will cater for, and the priority for spending?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: We could almost set our watches at this point for when the phones will start ringing and the emails will start coming in with school transport queries. This year was no different. In many ways, it is becoming Groundhog Day. Year in and year out, there are issues with the school transport scheme. While the €50 million is welcome, as would be any investment in school transport, we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: That has not been my experience. I have a case where one brother got a ticket and the other did not. Their mother told me she would be driving behind the school bus. That is not an unusual or unique situation. When parents contact Bus Éireann, they are met by a disregard almost for the query they have and the pressure this scheme puts them under. While I acknowledge the funding...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Will the Minister outline to the House where the counselling and well-being service ceases and NEPS steps in? There seems to be a level of confusion, particularly if we look at the budget for 2024. The budget for NEPS last year was €33 million, while this year, in the Minister's budget, it is €9.7 million. That is a considerable drop. Will the Minister outline the impact or...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Each and every one of the letters I hold today has come from a user of the services of the Irish Wheelchair Association in Mullingar. They were dropped into my office yesterday by somebody who works with them. I will use their words to describe how they are feeling. The first letter states: I am a person with a disability and rely heavily on my personal assistant from the Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Essentially, it is parked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: That is a very valid point. Ms Lewis raised a very important point in her statement about the lack of supports for people who have experienced abuse to potentially pursue an alleged abuser through court. The State should be encouraging and standing behind that pursuit of justice. The idea of an advocate is fantastic. It is going to be essential. In terms of what One in Four needs, this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: That is €70 in a month.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: The memory is back to being as raw as it ever was. That was very well put. Ms Byrne mentioned in her statement about the housing inequality experienced by survivors. Given the chronic lack of availability of any housing at the moment, whether it is social or affordable, how would she like to see the relationship between survivors and the likes of local authorities and the Housing Agency...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Will Ms Byrne give the committee a brief overview of the type of medical conditions that Right of Place Second Chance is lobbying to have recognised as a category 1?