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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]

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

Sorca Clarke: 406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person who needs a birth certificate for social protection purposes can currently obtain one at the reduced fee. [23103/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ombudsman for Children (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 427. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of complaints currently with the Ombudsman for Children by county in tabular form; if the age of complaint that has yet to receive a reply will be included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22610/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 497. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system undertaken by his Department in 2019; and if he will consider extending the availability of the FreeStyle Libre to all persons with type 1 diabetes. [22574/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 498. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria regarding the availability based on age of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system with a view to extending the availability of the FreeStyle Libre to all persons with type 1 diabetes and based on clinical need not of age. [22575/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 574. To ask the Minister for Health the conditions, diseases or ailments that are currently part of the pre-natal screening programme. [22899/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reviews (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 618. To ask the Minister for Health when the boarding out scheme was last reviewed by the HSE. [23104/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (4 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister for his time. I will not go over comments made or questions asked by other contributors but I will touch on something the Minister mentioned around the sexual violence investigation. That is absolutely welcome. While highlighting and acknowledging sexual violence as a weapon of war is a positive first step, we need to see action and accountability. That will be key...

National Autism Empowerment Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2021)

Sorca Clarke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. It affects thousands of families throughout the country. Like my colleague, Deputy Wynne, I am proud to say that I am an autism mammy. There is a perception that living with someone with autism is a constant burden and that it is always difficult or draining. That is simply not true. People with autism are among the most amazing people we...