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Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Regardless of which sector or group comes into Leinster House, when they come back six years later to say that not only does the problem remain, it has actually got worse, any Minister worth their salt would sit up and pay attention to what these people are saying because that is exactly what happened last week. It does not need to be like this. This is the real irritation and the crux of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of students at primary, post-primary and in other organisations that were provided with free hot school meals in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27482/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated average cost of providing hot school meals per child in primary school; the cost per child in post primary schools the cost per child in other organisations respectively, in the 2022-2023 and to date in 2023-2024, academic years in tabular form. [27483/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 281, 282 and 283 of 16 April 2024, the projected additional cost to the Exchequer each year from 2024 to 2030 respectively for the school transport scheme as per the phased implementation of the review, with a breakdown of the additional mainstream pupils and SEN pupils above current numbers that would...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (25 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will conduct an independent analysis of primary and post-primary school funding. [27155/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (25 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of names of the six DEIS urban band 1 schools which were declined breakfast club funding in 2023/2024. [26958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HAA cards currently in existence. [27147/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 479. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of services provided under HAA. [27148/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason pay for bus escorts was not reviewed at the same time as the minimum wage and public service pay reviews. [26651/24]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: When this Bill was first brought forward, the test the Department needed to pass was whether it was good enough. As it currently stands, I do not think that it is. Section 4(1) includes the wording "whom it is satisfied are former residents". One of the strongest recommendations from pre-legislative scrutiny was that all survivors, irrespective of whether they had already received an award...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I will not name the person and have not done so far. This person states clearly: During the last five years I have attempted to use the card to help me to apply for dental, ophthalmic and aural services and outpatient services to no avail. The medical professionals are completely unaware of the existence of the enhanced medical card and what it might allow a person to qualify for. I have...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I want to reiterate today one of the asks that was made of the committee. I note that it was somewhat referenced in the Minister's opening statement. I refer to GDPR and freedom of information. Survivors are very conscious of the fact that these are very sensitive records, but also that they are very important records for future use either by researchers or academics. It is important that...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I wish to make one more comment. It relates to the amendment to Schedule 1 to the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009. One of the concerns outlined to the committee by the survivors was fear of their reinstitutionalisation and the need for adequate home care packages and housing adaptations to ensure that survivors can live for as long as possible within their own home before the only...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Is the role of Sage Advocacy and the counselling services only available to those based in Ireland, or is it also available in Britain and further overseas given the number of survivors now living outside this State? The survivors' asks around advocacy and other supports available to them - or that may be made available to them under this Bill - included a one-stop shop because of their...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: On the €3,000 payment to those overseas, when was the decision made to offer that figure? What factors influenced that figure being arrived at? Given that the first briefing on the Bill was a considerable time ago, what review has the Department done around the impact of the rising cost of living and inflation on that figure to date? What work does it intend to do from this date to...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: When was that correspondence?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Through the Chair, could I ask-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: A more technical question has been put to the committee by the survivor groups that appeared before it. If a survivor is currently resident in Manchester, for example, the Bill states that person needs to be there for 12 months. If that person were to receive the €3,000 before the end of this calendar year and then return home to the State in a subsequent year, would he or she then...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: On the issue of educational supports for survivors provided for in the Bill, the impact of institutional abuse is much more profound than just the impact on a single individual. We are talking about somebody who may have gone on to become a parent, and who had very poor literacy and numeracy skills, being in the position where he or did not have the skills to support his or her own children...