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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: On the €3,000 payment to those overseas, when was the decision made to offer that figure? What factors influenced that figure being arrived at? Given that the first briefing on the Bill was a considerable time ago, what review has the Department done around the impact of the rising cost of living and inflation on that figure to date? What work does it intend to do from this date to...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: When was that correspondence?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Through the Chair, could I ask-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: A more technical question has been put to the committee by the survivor groups that appeared before it. If a survivor is currently resident in Manchester, for example, the Bill states that person needs to be there for 12 months. If that person were to receive the €3,000 before the end of this calendar year and then return home to the State in a subsequent year, would he or she then...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: On the issue of educational supports for survivors provided for in the Bill, the impact of institutional abuse is much more profound than just the impact on a single individual. We are talking about somebody who may have gone on to become a parent, and who had very poor literacy and numeracy skills, being in the position where he or did not have the skills to support his or her own children...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason pay for bus escorts was not reviewed at the same time as the minimum wage and public service pay reviews. [26651/24]

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Regardless of which sector or group comes into Leinster House, when they come back six years later to say that not only does the problem remain, it has actually got worse, any Minister worth their salt would sit up and pay attention to what these people are saying because that is exactly what happened last week. It does not need to be like this. This is the real irritation and the crux of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 281, 282 and 283 of 16 April 2024, the projected additional cost to the Exchequer each year from 2024 to 2030 respectively for the school transport scheme as per the phased implementation of the review, with a breakdown of the additional mainstream pupils and SEN pupils above current numbers that would...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (25 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will conduct an independent analysis of primary and post-primary school funding. [27155/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (25 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of names of the six DEIS urban band 1 schools which were declined breakfast club funding in 2023/2024. [26958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HAA cards currently in existence. [27147/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 479. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of services provided under HAA. [27148/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of students at primary, post-primary and in other organisations that were provided with free hot school meals in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27482/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated average cost of providing hot school meals per child in primary school; the cost per child in post primary schools the cost per child in other organisations respectively, in the 2022-2023 and to date in 2023-2024, academic years in tabular form. [27483/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that there will be no further delays to the building of a school (details supplied); if the project will be expedited as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27768/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a revised completion date for a school (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27873/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses from the Teaching Council for coming in this afternoon. They are most welcome and their time is appreciated. I have some very specific questions but I will start off with a comment. Hands down, the biggest question that I get asked is from those who want to do their induction here but have done their degree in Britain. Without a shadow of a doubt, it makes up the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Dr. Ramsey mentioned a review of that process. Can she speak a bit more to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I do not think we will ever forget.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Sorca Clarke: What is the timeline?