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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Does Professor Barry agree with it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Does it not undermine the trust of the medical professionals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: If this is the way things work in Ireland and politicians need to resort to emails to get a patient a medication, are we not undermining trust in the professional doctors in that scenario?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I have no hesitation in saying I do not agree with Professor Barry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: This should be a medical decision. Trust should be put in the doctors who are treating the patients, as opposed to overruling them. Our job is legislation. That is what we do. We are legislators.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Access to a politician or political entity should not result in one person receiving medication above somebody else who may not have that access.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Okay. I will very quickly ask another question. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to a review of the drug reimbursement process. Has anybody had any contact on this issue? Has it started? Is there any update?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: There are question marks over the Mazars report because the scope did not address those structural flaws.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 57. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the capital expenditure on Columb Barracks, Mullingar by his Department in 2024 and to date in 2025. [55780/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 58. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total expenditure by his Department for Columb Barracks, Mullingar, excluding capital; and a breakdown of the expenditure. [55781/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for CAMHS services, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55532/25]
- Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Budget 2026 was a serious step backwards for people with disabilities. They are angry and rightly so. The Indecon report commissioned by the Government in 2021 put the financial cost of disability in the region of €12,000 per year. An ESRI study showed that households with a disabled member face significant financial burdens ad are at a very high risk of poverty. For people who are...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (14 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of derelict properties in counties Longford and Westmeath in 2023 and 2024. [54957/25]
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: It was a joint effort.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Tullamore is in County Offaly.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day. I acknowledge everyone who has experienced mental health difficulties or illnesses, those experiencing them right now, the families and friends who have stood beside them and those who have lost a loved one. Every one of us knows someone who has struggled; many of us have been that someone. When talking about mental health, we cannot only talk about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for their time. In response to the Cathaoirleach in relation to a question to do with the use of private ambulances, Mr. Healy said he would like to see this brought in totality under a national service. Has there been progress to date on that? What are they key performance indicators, KPIs, for that? What is the plan for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Sorca Clarke: If Mr. Healy looks back over the past two years, what progress has been made on those actions?