Results 361-380 of 4,253 for speaker:Sorca Clarke

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (26 Nov 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients under 18 years of age being treated at the diabetic clinic in the Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar. [39303/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (26 Nov 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients over 18 years of age being treated at the diabetic clinic in the Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar. [39304/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (26 Nov 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in the paediatric diabetes clinic in the Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar. [39305/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: School Staff (26 Nov 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE evidence on which an organisation is basing its decision to deny health and safety leave to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39306/20]

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: At the very core of this issue is choice. The Government had the choice to listen to the people in February when they made the retirement age an election issue. The Government chose to ignore them and chose to bulldoze ahead with a proposal to raise the pension age, right up to the eleventh hour. It chose to try to placate the public by kicking this issue down the road, a move that is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services (1 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister of State for taking the time to speak about this serious issue. "What's seldom is wonderful." That is how one parent described the level of services his child with Down's syndrome has received. The tone in which he said it would break a stone heart. In my constituency of Longford-Westmeath the Springfield Centre in Mullingar plays a critical role in the provision...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services (1 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: There is no doubt that what the Minister of State said will come as welcome news to the families that use the Springfield Centre. From personal experience, I can state no parent brings his or her child to that centre for the craic. People go because of established and proven needs. The Minister of State mentioned face-to-face or online meetings. One issue which has cropped up is that of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (3 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the current review of income eligibility for social housing supports as per his email of 16 November 2020 includes a review of the situation in which a low-income family apply for working family payment, same is taken into consideration for social housing supports, often putting the family over the income limit. [40798/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding excluding commercial rates waiver funding that will be provided to each local authority to make up the loss of revenue and the additional costs associated with the Covid-19 pandemic in tabular form. [40800/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (3 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) is being informed by Meath County Council that medical reports from their general practitioner is not sufficient; and the medical qualifications of the housing officers in Meath County Council in addition to the relevant professional medical practice experience to be qualified to make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 325. To ask the Minister for Health when restrictions on birthing partners and fathers supporting women through labour in maternity settings are due to be lifted. [40799/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional resources that will be provided to local authorities in County Longford to ensure that there are adequate road safety measures in place including footpaths for children walking to a school (details supplied) given the specific reference to physical activity amongst children in the programme for Government. [42446/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps taken to date to facilitate safer walking to schools given the commitment in the programme for Government for an ambitious road safety strategy. [42448/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the contribution request for €40,000 by Westmeath County Council to the OPW in June 2020 was facilitated; and if so, when the payment was made. [42458/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Illness Benefit (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason illness benefit is classed as a temporary payment for the purposes of social housing assessment. [42463/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Data (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 96. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of promotional positions waiting to be filled throughout the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42467/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Road Safety (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources that will be provided to local authorities to ensure that there are adequate road safety measures in place including footpaths for children walking to a school (details supplied) in County Longford given the specific reference to physical activity amongst children in the programme for Government. [42447/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals by county that were upheld regarding the payment level of the pandemic unemployment payment in tabular form. [42460/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a comprehensive list of the payments that are classified as temporary. [42462/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Workplace Relations Commission (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 161. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to make the necessary funding available for the implementation of the Workplace Relations Commission's agreement of August 2019 between a union (details supplied) and city and county childcare committees. [42466/20]