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Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (12 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 562. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to ensure all care home providers and nursing home providers have proper standards and are regularly checked; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31654/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 563. To ask the Minister for Health the standards those employed in nursing homes have to have in terms of qualifications before being employed; the ongoing training that is provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (12 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 564. To ask the Minister for Health if a care home group (details supplied) are operating any care homes or nursing homes in County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31656/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Chair and all our guests for coming in today. This Bill has been a long time coming, even to Committee Stage. I have several questions for each of the groups so I will ask each question specifically to the groups and they may respond. If they wish to respond to another question they think may be relevant to their area, please feel free to do so. I will do this in the order in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Yes. I will go back to the questions from the previous round. I have no real additional questions to ask. Rather, I have a comment on the appropriateness of young adults being in accident and emergency departments. I do not think anybody agrees that an accident and emergency department, no more than a police station, is the place for somebody in profound mental health distress to be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Would the witnesses like to comment on my question from the previous round concerning what an independent complaints mechanism would look like?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I also asked previously about the authorised officer unit, how this would be seen as working and the staffing of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I apologise for interrupting but I have an eye on the clock. In this regard, am I correct that by not being limited by county boundaries and being able to cluster services, there would be a specialised unit that would have a pool of authorised officers to pull from if and when the need arose?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: The Taoiseach said earlier utilities need certainty and so do people. Residents and businesses in Ballymahon and Ardagh in Longford have had enough. Last year, Ardagh's water supply failed 13 times and there were five more failures this year, excluding storm-related outages. It is a long-standing problem and is unacceptable. It is upending the daily lives of ordinary people, families,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: There is not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: But there are none.

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: What those crowds outside the gates during the Minister of State's ten-minute speech heard was waffle and spin. They live the reality of this Government's failed housing policies. Their families, friends and co-workers live this reality. They know as well as we in opposition do that the Government at this stage might as well be a meme for fiddling while Rome burns when it comes to housing,...

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider raising age eligibility for those who wish to avail of the young adult Leap Card considering the financial pressures facing people in their mid-to-late twenties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31887/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered introducing a national policy on menstrual health education that includes conditions such as endometriosis and PCOS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31889/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Policy (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 474. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the protections and supports he plans to introduce to safeguard and promote authentic Irish cultural production and employment in the arts sector given the growth of streaming platforms and AI generated content; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31886/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered expanding the scope of Coco’s Law to cover deepfakes and AI generated content more explicit given the rise in online image-based abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31888/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainable Development Goals (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 651. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports the are in place for small farmers transitioning to more sustainable and regenerative practices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31885/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 742. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the physiotherapist service in a care centre (details supplied) in Longford, following the noncompliance finding by HIQA in October 2024, and the ongoing attempts to source permanent location, the work that has been undertaken in terms of relocation to the primary care centre in Ballyminnion; and if any findings have indicated it's not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 916. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a geographical breakdown of the 174 authorised officers currently appointed under the Mental Health Act 2001; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32724/25]