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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Israel's Conduct of its Occupation of the Palestinian Territory: Discussion (31 Mar 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank Professor Lynk for his time and for sharing his experience and expertise with the committee. It is most welcome. His report makes for very difficult and very disturbing reading. However, his report does not do that in isolation. We have had other contributors before the committee, and other reports and opening statements, that have been equally disturbing. I will focus on one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for their time and for their expertise with us this morning. It is greatly appreciated. Does the Chair want to go issue by issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I have my questions broken down by the recommendations as I think it is easier to keep it organised in that way. In relation to recommendation 38, I have to be quite honest that I think the Too Into You campaign was a brilliant initiative. I would like to see it rolled out more intensely in some areas where the need for it has been identified. Ms Benson spoke of integrating the research...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Family courts should be part of a process that finalises the end of a relationship. It should not be used in any shape or form to further damage or to further traumatise any individual. We have to recognise that the end of a relationship does not signify the end of abuse. I have spoken with individuals who have told me that they have been advised to be extra careful and extra vigilant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Sorca Clarke: With respect to the strategy and how it relates to awareness and targeted awareness initiatives with young people and minors, I acknowledge that it is currently in draft form. We also had the benefit of an additional consultation. We await with particular interest the implementation plan, which will be published alongside it. There is material in there that may be sufficient, although that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I will be very brief. In a situation where somebody does not agree to their counselling records being disclosed in court, is there a negative presumption about this decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I wish to follow up on a comment by Ms Benson. I know Safe Ireland will go into the issue of the Tusla accommodation review in more detail next week, but from the perspective of our guests, will that review ultimately deliver the gold standard of emergency accommodation we desperately need not just in the context of accommodation, but also in terms of the wraparound supports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Chairman. I will keep my questions concise because we want to hear the witnesses' responses. I thank them all for their time this morning and for the expertise they bring to this room. It is vitally important in our work to ensure that the recommendations of the Citizen's Assembly actually deliver that real change that is so desperately needed. I will start with AkiDwA. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: How confident are the witnesses that the engagements they have had to date and the proposals they have put forward will be incorporated into the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: And that Act is ten years old.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses. I think we are over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Chair for allowing us to contribute again. I wish to ask Ms McDermott a question. Recently, I engaged with a local domestic violence service provider. One of the issues that was strongly raised was that there appeared to be an imbalance being created between funding and the governance and compliance requirements on the service. What is being asked of services is increasing but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: It needs a wrap-around.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Sorry, there is the Men's Development Network response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: That is right.

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: It has been a while since I have seen a level of financial hardship so evident, one that is crippling, gnawing at and creating real fear in my constituents. I urge the Minister to listen to what these people in Longford and Westmeath are saying. They are worried and scared. These are people who could already tell us the price to the cent of every item they put into their shopping trolley...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 173. To ask the Taoiseach the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [19754/22]