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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Dec 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time of paternity benefit applications since being introduced. [59368/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Dec 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports that will be put in place to ensure quick and local access to PCR testing given the level of additional needs of the service users of a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59156/21]

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on my colleague Deputy Kerrane's motion to protect local employment services and the not-for-profit and community-based ethos of existing local employment services. The proposed model set out in the Government's recent tender process is not the person-centred approach that was successfully fostered by the local employment services and job clubs. The...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: The truth hurts, but it is true.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: Will the Minister support these amendments or does he want to be the Scrooge at Christmas for these staff?

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: Does the Minister want to be the Grinch that helps to steal Christmas? There is never a wrong time to do the right thing. The time to do the right thing is now.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: Before I begin, I want to assure colleagues that I do not have Covid. I have something that predates Covid, which I believe is called the common cold. Various measures have now, rightly, been enacted to increase the pay of public service workers. They followed on from the cuts that were made in the wake of the previous financial crisis. Many public service workers remember only too well...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a trade mission to Australia is planned for early in 2022. [58522/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the banning of single use plastics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59122/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that will be invested in the public service obligation bus fleet by route in 2022. [58523/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 214. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations within the Roscommon and Longford Garda division that were refurbished by the Office of Public Works in 2020 and to-date in 2021; the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out on each station; and if each work project is completed or still ongoing in tabular form. [58515/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Sports Organisations (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that has been taken to date to facilitate the return of the quarterly meetings as committed to earlier in 2021 with Face Ireland. [58454/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Sports Organisations (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next meeting with an organisation (details supplied) will go ahead given the repeated requests by the organisation to discuss a number of issues; and the status of the request to set up a functioning wildlife advisory council. [58455/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria a single father who co-parents his children must meet in order for his social housing application to include himself and his children qualify for a suitably sized local authority property. [58894/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is an essential requirement that the single parent applicant must be in receipt of children’s allowance in order for dependent children to be included on a social housing application. [58895/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in which there is a discrepancy in the funding awarded under the private housing grants scheme and the funding received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58896/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 271. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to increase the number of staff located at the Irish Embassy in Canberra. [58526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Freedom of Information (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 278. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of freedom of information requests that are currently with his Department seeking an internal review of a decision in tabular form. [58849/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Freedom of Information (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 279. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of complaints that have been made to the Office of the Ombudsman regarding Freedom of Information requests to his Department. [58850/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 294. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of new horses that joined the Defence Forces school of equitation in 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of horses that left the school of equitation in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if funding has been provided in 2022 to purchase additional horses. [58512/21]