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Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: There is something fundamentally wrong with a housing system that sees families not in homes but in hotels, and tourists not in hotels but in homes. I refer to the survey published by The TimesIreland edition last week, which showed that Airbnb rentals now outstrip long-term rental homes in every county. The Minister of State and I share a constituency. A quick look at Airbnb shows that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: For almost a year and a half now, Charles Murray in Athlone has been living in a nursing home following a stroke because his private rented accommodation is no longer suitable. Despite representations and interventions by occupational therapists, physiotherapists and a medical social worker, the response from the local authority to date has been that there are no properties available but...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to refuse an application for assistive technology for a pupil (details supplied). [26472/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (24 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 683. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he and his Department are taking to tackle the continued shortage of hormone replacement treatments across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26470/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 684. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community optometrists contracted to provide services by CHO area in 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [26471/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (25 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 88. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures that his Department is taking to reduce this nation’s dependence on the UK to defend our sovereignty particularly now when we are celebrating a centenary of our independence from the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26921/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (25 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the terms of reference have been drafted for the proposed external review of the policies processes and procedures in operation for the calculation of prisoner sentences; and if she has identified a suitable person to conduct this independent review. [26919/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (25 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to allocate funds from the European Crisis Reserve. [26920/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 11. To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately implement a fast thorough review of the existing National Maternity Hospital given that it will be some time before the new national maternity hospital is built (details supplied). [26034/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 91. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that he and his Department have given to the requests by an organisation (details supplied) for a new contract to replace the existing 23-year-old contract for public eye-care and for the expansion of services accessed in the community. [26033/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Code (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give consideration to abolishing the extra administrative charges applied to motorists who renew their motor tax every three or every six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27178/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will implement both a widening of the eligibility criteria and an increase in the amount paid under the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance given the enormous rise in the cost of living. [27180/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 390. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement a review of Ireland's maternity hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27179/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Defibrillators Provision (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 435. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports that are available to rural communities for the purchase, maintenance and upgrade of defibrillators. [27177/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Tomorrow, the wider Defence Forces community, including veterans, spouses, families and friends, will again campaign on behalf of serving members for the implementation of the working time directive. For well over a decade now, successive Governments have known they were in breach of employment rights legislation. There have been years of talking about implementing this directive and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister and her officials for giving of their time this morning. Their engagement here is very productive and most welcome. It makes our job as a committee much more rounded and, hopefully, much more impactful as we continue our work. The Minister and I share the same opinion on the importance of citizens’ assemblies. However, implementation is key in respect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: If I may ask a brief supplementary question while-----