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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2022)

Sorca Clarke: We spoke about affordability and availability. I want to return to the accessibility part, particularly outside our major cities. If we are looking at a five-year plan, if we want to be able to give parents certainty and if we are committing to a vision of where we want to be a number of years hence, one of the biggest issues in terms of accessibility is how the child physically gets from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the engagement that he or his Department have had with the British Government and Prime Minister since the Assembly elections in Northern Ireland on 5 May 2022. [24925/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the engagement that he or his Department have had with the political leaders in Northern Ireland following the Assembly elections. [24924/22]

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...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (31 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement that he has had with all of the stakeholders regarding the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) concerning the post office commercial service contract July 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27492/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (31 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement that his Department has had with representatives of construction industry regarding the expected delays to building projects due to the increase in building and fuel costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27493/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (31 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in counties Longford and Westmeath who have completed a one-day competency-based driver level one assessment, which allows gardaí to drive patrol cars but not turn on their sirens or flashing blue lights in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [27776/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (31 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 591. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in counties Longford and Westmeath who have completed the competency-based driver level two assessment, which allows gardaí to pursue vehicles at high speeds, use the sirens and turn on the flashing blue lights in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [27777/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (31 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 592. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in counties Longford and Westmeath who have not completed either level one or level two of the competency-based driver assessment. [27778/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (31 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 593. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in counties Longford and Westmeath who have faced disciplinary action for using the siren or flashing blue lights without a level two competency-based driver assessment, in tabular form. [27779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (31 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 728. To ask the Minister for Health the number of workers in his Department and in each office or agency under the aegis of his Department that are not employed directly but are employed by a private company. [27775/22]

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]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Before we begin, members now have the option of being physically present in the committee room or may join via Microsoft Teams from their Leinster House offices. Members may not participate in the meeting from outside of the parliamentary precincts. If joining on Teams, I ask members to mute their microphones when not speaking and use the raise-hand function to indicate. I ask members to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank Dr. Barry for her comprehensive opening statement. I invite Professor Murphy to make her opening statement.