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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 933. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of the total number of children who have received the back-to-school payment to date; the number of children who are expected to receive the payment in the coming weeks; and the total amount spent on this allowance to date, in tabular form. [57351/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a permanent ISL voucher scheme. [57353/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 21 November 2023, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities to have this PQ answered. [1469/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1391. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of resourcing supports for students with SEN, including proper access to therapeutic supports in mainstream schools and reducing waiting times for assessments, in tabular form. [57355/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1392. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of establishing an initial panel of 200 speech and language therapists for schools as a shared resource. [57358/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in the accident and emergency department of Mullingar Regional Hospital as of 5 January 2024; and if he will provide same figures as of 5 January 2021, in tabular form. [1470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1735. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend eligibility for the long-term illness scheme for reimbursement of blood glucose test strips (insulin and metformin) to all women who develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy; if he agrees with the decision to remove them from the scheme; if he will reverse that decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1619/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1736. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy in each of the years 2018 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1620/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1874. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a fund is available to assist in the procurement of C02 alarms for vulnerable people and people in isolated areas. [1672/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (23 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to extend teacher training in the Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone. [2991/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are any plans for the relocation of people seeking international protection to a building (details supplied) on the Main Street in Edgeworthstown, County Longford. [2584/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Chair and Deputy O'Sullivan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Chair. I also thank the Minister for referring to the issue I brought to his attention about the part-time option for study. It is very important that we create the pathways for anyone who wants to go back to education to have the facility to do so. That was a real barrier so I will be following those developments with some interest. I have three questions I wish to put to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Are all of those two thirds owned by investment funds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Could the Minister back to the committee with an answer to that question, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: My second question is that an issue emerged last year in my own constituency to do with a Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, applicant who was renting a room, was therefore not a tenant, was not a licensed holder, and could not provide SUSI with a tenancy agreement. Can the Minister give a commitment that greater clarification will be provided to SUSI because that applicant and grant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Renting a room.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: No, renting a room in a third party's home. They were privately renting a room.