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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average waiting time for payments under the young farmer capital investment scheme in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36702/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers currently awaiting approval and payment under the organic farming scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36703/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (3 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 324. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average waiting time for access to the ECCE scheme places per county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36704/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (3 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for children aged 2-6 to access speech and language therapy services in each health region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36706/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: That would be the outsourcing; is any insourcing used for assessments of need and mental health care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Does Mr Gloucester have any indication as to the extent to which that is happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: It was a response to a parliamentary question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Is Mr. Mulvany disputing the €93 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Let me ask the question again. Of the outsourced mental health budget provided by the State, what are the services that are being provided and who are the biggest providers of those services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Supplementary to that, how much of that money is spent on eating disorder treatments in the UK?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Okay. When outsourcing of mental health care is provided, what metrics are used to compare the value for money or the cost per patient being provided with the necessary care through a private provider versus the equivalent level of care in the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I tend to be of the same opinion, although I would like to see it provided through our public system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: With regard to adult ADHD services and their funding, how effective are they when compared with the level of demand presenting to those services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Does Mr. Gloster envisage any change in criteria for accessing these adult ADHD services, given the current level of demand?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses. I will launch straight into questions because we have lost four minutes compared with previous commentators. I want to follow up on something Mr. Gloster touched on regarding insourcing and outsourcing for assessment of needs. In response to a query put to it about a tender taking eight months to get a reply, the HSE advised it wanted to look at this and that it...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: What kind of government looks struggling students in the eye and says, "You're on your own"? That would be those sitting on the opposite side of the House. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael came into power on a narrative of fairness and support for young people, and access to education, but instead we got the Minister touting that student fees will rise in September. From the Taoiseach, the...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 2: In page 16, to delete lines 32 to 35 and substitute the following: “ “mental health difficulty” and/or “psychosocial disability” mean, in relation to a person, any mental disorder, illness or disability, whether of a continuous or intermittent nature, which affects the person’s thinking, perception, emotion, or mood and...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 9: In page 21, line 9, after “Act” to insert “and shall carry out an interim review after 2.5 years”. This is an area that has me very concerned. While five years is some progress, it is not enough. The Government has the opportunity here to put some very real and substantial oversight into the Bill by accepting the Sinn Féin...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I understand that completely. My concern is that “not later than five years” can mean four years and 364 days. I want to see something that is more tangible, and I think it needs to be put into this Bill. While five years is a standardised approach, two and a half years is much more effective because it allows us, as legislators, to make the appropriate changes as soon as...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: By not accepting the amendment and not recognising the value of the two and a half year interim review, the Minister of State is closing the door on potential learnings for the new parts of the Bill that may not be enacted or may not be fully in place. There may be very valuable learnings from parts of the Bill that have been enacted and the services that have been in place for two and a...