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Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: The just translation concept was conceived to assist counties and communities most affected by the move from fossil fuels to transition in a just manner to other forms of energy generation and other means of employment where generational employment had ended. Last year Sinn Féin sought to define a just transition and just translation principles and to ensure that Government adhered to...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: After decades of women campaigning, fighting and, in some instances, begging for healthcare, we are standing here today with a Government that has signed off on a deal that fails to deliver a public hospital on public land. Instead, it has signed us up to a convoluted lease that will run for 300 years. It is obvious to the most uneducated person in economics out there that the investment of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (17 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given by her Department for a review of the entitlement to the fuel allowance considering the increased costs of fuel and the rising costs of living. [24648/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given by her Department to a once-off cost of living increase for social welfare recipients considering the increased costs of fuel and the rising costs of living. [24649/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (17 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 161. To ask the Taoiseach if a review of Census 2022 is planned; and if so, when this is expected to take place. [24374/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a review of the income eligibility limits for social housing will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24932/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (17 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 425. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he or his party has had with the political leaders in Northern Ireland following the Assembly Elections. [24931/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (17 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 429. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the consideration that has been given to offer shorter term contracts those in the Defence Forces who are in a position to continue to serve as they approach retirement given the retention and recruitment crisis in the forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24373/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Commemorative Medals (17 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 432. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total cost associated with the awarding of the 1916 centenary commemorative medal to include the manufacturing, distribution and ancillary costs. [24769/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (17 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 615. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to extending the stamp 2 visas for holders of same that are due to expire on 31 May to September 2022 given the potential impact on the holders' academic studies, the industries in which they worked during the high summer season and the current constraints on An Garda Síochána in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (12 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he and his Department have had with SME's who are struggling with fuel and inflationary costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24041/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (12 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that medical card holders who are resident in nursing homes are being denied their right to a public ambulance to transport them to either outpatient or inpatient hospital appointments and that families are being presented with accumulating bills from private ambulance providers. [24034/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (12 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 345. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that private ambulances are being utilised by nursing homes for the transport of medical card holders who cannot be transferred by wheelchair taxi to hospital in cases in which the national ambulance service or another ambulance service (details supplied) could provide this service either freely or for a nominal fee. [24035/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who are awaiting an appointment with a genetic counsellor in the department of clinical genetics, Crumlin Children’s Hospital. [24036/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 347. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who are awaiting an appointment with a genetic counsellor in the department of clinical genetics, Crumlin Children’s Hospital in each of the years 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [24037/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (12 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 348. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under 18 years of age who have diagnosis of ataxia telangiectasia; and the treatment that is available to them in Ireland. [24038/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (12 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the way a child with a diagnosis of ataxia telangiectasia can access clinical trials outside of Ireland. [24039/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (12 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 362. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement he and his Department have had with those in the agrifood sector who are struggling with fuel and inflationary costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24040/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank Ms Neville and Ms Exton for attending. It is a pleasure to have them here, and it is very important that they are here. I have a couple of questions for them. Many submissions are sent to various committees. I do not tend to rank the ones that are most impressive, but that presented by Ms Neville and Ms Exton is up there. What some groups take 14 pages to say, they have captured...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I will be brief because there are others who have not yet contributed. I want to touch briefly on recommendations 26 and 30 and the importance of that gender neutral career information, but also the impact that having a lack of variety of options to study at second level is having an impact on third level. We heard from the third level sector. This is something that it has recognised as a...