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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the schedule for upgrading the public broadband in libraries per county in tabular form. [38633/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Programmes (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagements he has had with other Departments in order to ensure that designations under the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 will involve full consultation with farmers. [38632/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he plans to include in the CAP Strategic Plan in order to redistribute funding to smaller and poorer family farms. [38621/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that supports to the group (details supplied) are included in the next CAP. [38622/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to continue the process of convergence in 2022. [38623/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of CAP pillar 1 payments he plans to allocate to young farmers in the next CAP. [38624/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to rollover all CAP pillar 2 spending in 2022. [38625/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the recommendations that he will implement as contained within the report of the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on Issues impacting the forestry sector in Ireland relating to ash dieback. [38626/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to reform the organic farming scheme to remove preference for larger holdings above smaller farms. [38627/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department has taken to support the horticultural and mushroom sector in response to imminent crisis due to peat shortages. [38628/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to potential animal welfare concerns with regard to increased prevalence of liver abscesses in feedlot cattle; and the data that is available with regard to the usage of antibiotics to treat such in Ireland. [38629/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a support package for sheep farmers on animal welfare grounds. [38630/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has conducted a socio-economic impact assessment on the effects of the British-Australian trade agreement on Irish agriculture. [38631/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Pre-Budget Submission: Dóchas (14 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: I thank our guests for coming in, for sharing their experiences and for updating us on their programmes across the world. I absolutely agree with what Ms Keatinge said in her opening statement, which was that this has been no ordinary year. It has not been an ordinary year for any of us but the support provided to local communities on the ground by groups such as Ms Keatinge's will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department has taken to ensure the easing of maternity restrictions is being implemented in Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [37736/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 162. To ask the Minister for Health if the recent lifting on restrictions in the UK will have an impact on quarantine requirements for persons travelling to or from the UK from Ireland. [37737/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Emigrant Support Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: I fully agree with the statement Ms Kennelly made earlier about how Covid has exacerbated existing conditions for those who are migrants, regardless of whether they are legal or illegal. If Covid has shown us anything, it has really rocked us to our core and exposed how reliant we are on friends and family. When you are away from home or in a foreign country, that lack of familiarity can be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (8 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to assess and address the literacy and numeracy levels in the adult population in this country. [36777/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (8 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department has taken to ensure the SUSI application process and in particular the area of family estrangement is more reflective of Irish society in 2021. [36776/21]