Results 21-40 of 4,188 for speaker:Sorca Clarke
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Sorca Clarke: It really is not suitable and we have seen that situation end in tragedy. The Minister of State earlier referenced sexual assault treatment units, SATUs. I want to go to a recent HSE report on our SATUs, which are wonderful places. They are sadly overused, but that is a different conversation. The unit with the third highest number of attendees outside Dublin and Cork is in Mullingar....
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Sorca Clarke: I appreciate that. I have one final issue to raise. I am not going down the rabbit hole of digitisation because we could be here until the end of the calendar year. I do, however, have a suggestion. We have seen an increase in virtual appointments and clinics. For some service users, they absolutely meet the need. However, when a prescription is prescribed through one of these virtual...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Sorca Clarke: It is the emergency supply scheme.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Sorca Clarke: In the interim-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Sorca Clarke: Several months ago, I raised the issue of the need to look at CORU registration following the conviction of a man in my constituency for sexually assaulting one of his clients and having hours of covert video of women he was providing sports injury and recovery services to. Does the Minister envisage that review of CORU registration in the near future?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Sorca Clarke: I respect that, but this individual will leave jail and he will be free to continue with the employment and business he had beforehand because he does not currently fall under CORU's registration requirements.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Sorca Clarke: The issue in this case is that this man was the employer. He was the business owner.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Sorca Clarke: There is capacity subject to staffing.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Sorca Clarke: This can be changed very quickly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of virtual medical related appointments in the years 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and the number of prescriptions provided at these virtual appointments. [34967/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to emails on 28 May and 12 June 2025, to provide an update on the urgently needed modular units for a school (details supplied). [33874/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Traveller Accommodation (24 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of traveller-specific accommodation funding returned to his Department, per county, in tabular form, for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024. [33872/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the proposed works at Blackberry Lanes, Athlone, County Westmeath. [33873/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (24 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 741. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider extending the current income support scheme for healthcare workers with long-Covid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33514/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 758. To ask the Minister for Health the specific measures being taken to improve access to trauma-informed mental health care for individuals who are experiencing homelessness, particularly outside of major cities such as Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33624/25]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I am really disappointed that we have to have this meeting. I suspect it will be the first of a series of meetings we will have on issues like this. I find that deplorable. People entrusted CHI with the care of their children. Children are not small adults. They have a very specific set of needs. I say this as a TD and a parent, I think CHI abused that. Not only are the parents...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Will the HSE engage with the parents around the terms of reference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: The HSE will give them that commitment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Will the HSE commit to making counselling and mental health supports available to both the children and their parents?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: And their children.