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Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I very much welcome the opportunity for statements on this issue. Given the time I have available to me, I will not be able to touch on everything I wish to address. It is a topic we should be discussing more. I am somewhat taken aback that the Minister of State managed to go through a seven-page speech but not once mention the report from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism or the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans he has to solve the parking shortage at Athlone train station; if he will explore options for expanding parking facilities or implementing alternative parking arrangements to better serve commuters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20656/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (8 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of HAA cards that are currently in existence. [20927/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (8 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of services provided under HAA. [20928/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (8 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people excluded from the Caranua scheme. [20929/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 332. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans she has in place to ensure that children with coeliac disease are properly catered for in the school meals programme; if she will provide additional funding to ensure same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20830/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 617. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a child (details supplied) who was allocated an additional four hours of care in 2022, funded by the HSE, and is still waiting to have these hours fulfilled two years later; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20759/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 618. To ask the Minister for Health where a person (details supplied) is on the waiting list for additional hours of care. [20760/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people excluded from the Caranua scheme; the number of people covered by this scheme, multiplied by the contribution pension. [20949/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I am giving my time to Deputy Mairéad Farrell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for coming in. They are very welcome. It is really beneficial to hear their voices in the committee room. I have three very basic questions and answering them probably will not take that long. There was mention of little enforcement of the interim list of eligible programmes, ILEP, rules and that where transgressions by schools and their agents are identified, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: That is deeply concerning. The witness mentioned the Taoiseach. When our current Taoiseach was Minister for higher education, what action, if any, did he take to address the problems in the sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: My final question is for any of our guests who would like to answer it. Broadly speaking, if the witnesses could ask the Minister to make three immediate changes to benefit the sector, what would these be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Meetings (14 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the next date scheduled of the EU Transport Ministers Council meeting; and if he will attend this meeting. [21410/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (14 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of wholetime equivalent, WTE, fire and security engineers at grades 1 and 2 who are employed by the OPW in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [21416/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (14 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 262. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if IDA Ireland put out a tender for a full-time United Arab Emirates based business development consultant in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [21417/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (14 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of capital funding her Department has provided to a school (details supplied) in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [21400/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; and the estimated cost for these works. [21401/24]