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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 274. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he plans to examine the current accommodation requirements of the Defence Forces given that An Garda Síochána are recruiting a head of estate management. [25171/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 275. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will establish a commission to consider gender quotas and equality of opportunity within the Defence Forces. [25172/21]

Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: I welcome this Bill to introduce a new category for those involved in evictions. However, I will address a concern I have about one aspect of the often overlooked private security sector, namely, persons who install security systems, access control, fire alarms, etc. They are also regulated and licensed by the PSA. At the beginning of the pandemic when lockdown and all the restrictions...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: Among the many cohorts of students whose needs are not met by the educational system is that comprising those who are described as gifted children. The Centre for Talented Youth has stated that there needs to be appropriate educational challenge and that these learners need to feel valued and be surrounded by peers of equal academic achievement. The programme for Government refers to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: What progress has the Government made in respect of the strategy in this regard?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is currently no procedure at present to apply for SNA support for new pupils; and when the new circular from her Department will be issued to address the ongoing and deep concern this situation has created for parents, pupils and principals. [24817/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the ladies for their time this morning and the incredibly informative presentation they gave. In the spirit of full disclosure, I should say that breastfeeding is something close to my heart and I have nursed four children through various mechanisms because of different influences. I will come back to that as we go through the questions. I agree that choice is key but that choice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: In the witnesses' experience, how many women donate to the human milk bank in Irvinestown? Do they know of any ladies who are still doing it?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements in place regarding leave for pregnant teachers, SNAs and early years educators during the Covid-19 pandemic. [24026/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (11 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when case officers in social welfare offices were notified that participants on the back to work enterprise allowance could pause their allowance when their businesses were forced to close due to Covid-19 restrictions. [24515/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (11 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all participants on the back to work enterprise allowance were informed in writing of their option to pause their allowance when their businesses were forced to close due to Covid-19 restrictions. [24516/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 760. To ask the Minister for Health the basis of assessing a person as being fully vaccinated regarding the vaccine bonus four weeks after the first dose of a vaccine (details supplied); the incentive to return for the second dose if a person is deemed fully vaccinated after one dose; and the implications of not receiving the second dose. [24024/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 761. To ask the Minister for Health the basis of assessing a person as fully vaccinated regarding the vaccine bonus one week after the second dose of a vaccine (details supplied) when it has been reported that it has an efficacy of 69% after 21 to 44 days of one dose rising to 96% after the second dose. [24025/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (6 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if information will be provided on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if further information will be provided on the stated need to consider...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 235. To ask the Minister for Health if a person being refused a blood test at the Midlands Regional Hospital Mullingar is reflective of a new wider practice in which hospitals are no longer accepting patients referred by their general practitioner for blood tests, given that this service is not covered by the medical card and the additional fee payable to the general practitioner can...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: This Bill offers some tentative first steps in the right direction but it is not quite there yet. Engagement with all sectors from local government to each Department is something climate activists have been crying out for for years. Specific goals offer an attempt at long-term strategising but achievement on that must be sensible, consistent and within a framework that is unambiguous. The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: The programme for Government commits to developing end-of-life services. Can the Taoiseach then explain the shameful treatment of the South Westmeath Hospice Committee? It is a voluntary committee that has been treated with utter disdain by the HSE and that is now resorting to legal advice. A written undertaking was given to this committee by the HSE that, should St. Vincent's Care Centre,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: As leader of the Government, will the Taoiseach please act in this regard? It is the most urgent of issues.

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: Free sale, fixity of tenure and fair rent were the three Fs demanded by the Land League many years ago. Yet here we are today, with many renters in a very similar situation to that of their ancestors. In my constituency of Longford-Westmeath, the average rents may be below the national average but they are rising quickly. As one constituent put it to me, "It is only upwards that they go."...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Birth Certificates (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangements in place for those who need a birth certificate to be able to obtain one in circumstances in which they do not have access to a bank card for online or phone payment. [23102/21]