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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 337. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will provide funding for the recruitment of an additional paediatric endocrinologist for Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin. [43965/20]

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: This evening, there are 34 two and three-bedroom properties available to rent for less than €1,200 in Longford and Westmeath. I fully agree with my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, that 2021 must be about preventing homelessness. We are leaving behind significant and growing numbers of people who live in our communities - our friends and neighbours. What would have been unthinkable a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (10 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 94. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the plight of parents of children with Down’s syndrome who have been without services since March 2020; if his Department will allocate additional resources to deal with the backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40784/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Developments in Georgia: Engagement with Ambassador of Georgia (10 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: I thank Mr. Zurabashvili for his time this morning and during the more severe lockdown restrictions in Ireland, when he gave so freely of his time on Zoom. It was much appreciated then and remains so now. I thank him also for outlining so comprehensively and eloquently the challenges that his country faces. In respect of the creeping border with Russia and the impact that has had, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Developments in Georgia: Engagement with Ambassador of Georgia (10 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the ambassador for his time this afternoon. As a newly elected Sinn Féin Deputy in the last election, I have had no correspondence from the Israeli Embassy. Perhaps, if the ambassador is open to it, I will give him my email address at the end of this session. I will certainly take him up on an invitation to meet outside of this setting. It will probably come as no surprise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Developments in Georgia: Engagement with Ambassador of Georgia (10 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: That is why I am asking that a briefing be provided to members of the committee. Ambassadors do not have enough time to touch on every single aspect of things. It is something that stuck out to me as not being very reflective of Israel as a whole. It is not something we would hear spoken about very often.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional resources that will be provided to local authorities in County Longford to ensure that there are adequate road safety measures in place including footpaths for children walking to a school (details supplied) given the specific reference to physical activity amongst children in the programme for Government. [42446/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps taken to date to facilitate safer walking to schools given the commitment in the programme for Government for an ambitious road safety strategy. [42448/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the contribution request for €40,000 by Westmeath County Council to the OPW in June 2020 was facilitated; and if so, when the payment was made. [42458/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Illness Benefit (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason illness benefit is classed as a temporary payment for the purposes of social housing assessment. [42463/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Data (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 96. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of promotional positions waiting to be filled throughout the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42467/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Road Safety (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources that will be provided to local authorities to ensure that there are adequate road safety measures in place including footpaths for children walking to a school (details supplied) in County Longford given the specific reference to physical activity amongst children in the programme for Government. [42447/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals by county that were upheld regarding the payment level of the pandemic unemployment payment in tabular form. [42460/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a comprehensive list of the payments that are classified as temporary. [42462/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Workplace Relations Commission (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 161. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to make the necessary funding available for the implementation of the Workplace Relations Commission's agreement of August 2019 between a union (details supplied) and city and county childcare committees. [42466/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 168. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the authority by which Tusla can compel attendance at medical, psychological or intervention therapies. [42464/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request SUSI to specifically deal with the issue of estrangement in Article 21(3)(b) of the student grant scheme 2020 to more accurately reflect the reality for many families. [42465/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Pardons (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process by which a person can seek to have a historical conviction overturned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42459/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 231. To ask the Minister for Health the spatial criteria for the separation of Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 in paediatric emergency departments; and the recommendations regarding meeting the criteria. [42449/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public hospitals that do not have spatial capacity in their emergency departments to meet the criteria regarding the separation of Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 patients. [42450/20]