Results 541-560 of 3,935 for speaker:Sorca Clarke

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I wish to follow up on the response by Ms Hope to the question on student accommodation posed by the Chairman. My colleague, Deputy Mairéad Farrell, has been very active on this issue over recent months. I wonder how effective the Department will be, given that the vast majority of student accommodation is privately owned. Last February, Trinity, DCU and UCD combined had 5,600 units...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: What impact can the Department have on the decarbonisation and retrofitting of the accommodation that is privately owned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: What about the existing supply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I appreciate that, but considering the vast difference that is there at the moment and the length of time construction takes, there will be a reliance on private supply for the foreseeable future in many areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Is it the case that there has not been any engagement with the owners? Has there been any engagement with them to see if they have plans to upgrade the accommodation that is there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Has any commitment been given by any of these investors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: No.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 338.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Korean is being considered as a Leaving Certificate subject. [25381/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 339.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria considered when introducing a foreign language as a Leaving Certificate subject and if there is a threshold in terms of student numbers. [25382/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 489.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to explain why schools, newly designated as DEIS in 2022, are solely eligible either for a hot meal (if they are a primary school) or a cold lunch (if they are a post-primary school) and not for a breakfast club; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25451/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 490.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria determining the declining of funding for a breakfast club for the six DEIS Urban Band 1 schools. [25452/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 837.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of new GPs in Kinnegad, Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25309/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Jun 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 838.To ask the Minister for Health the proposals for families living in rural areas if waiting lists for local GPs are full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25310/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The parents I speak to are well used to having to battle the State and having to fight for every service their child has ever received. By the time they get to a SENO, they have already tried everything that is going to be recommended by that SENO. I agree with the Minister of State about regionalisation. My constituency in the midlands was in the same area as Donegal, and Lord help the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Teaching Qualifications (28 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an alternative for teachers who completed their teaching qualifications in England to complete their induction period in Ireland, as was done under the Covid-19 amendment regulation. [23805/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Teaching Qualifications (28 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I ask the Minister to provide an alternative for teachers who completed their teaching qualifications in England to complete their induction period in Ireland, as was done under the Covid-19 amendment regulation.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Teaching Qualifications (28 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I hear what the Minister is saying but that is going to ring hollow with many people who want to come and work as teachers here and who have qualified in England. My understanding is that some of the work currently ongoing is actually in regard to teachers who may go to the Middle East for a number of years before coming back, although that too is a welcome step. At the moment, we have an...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Teaching Qualifications (28 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: This is a Covid amendment regulation. In the more than four years since Covid sadly landed on these shores, as it did across the rest of the world, what engagement has the Department had on an ongoing basis with the Teaching Council in this regard? Clearly, an issue was identified and addressed at that point in time and that regulation was put in place, but the Minister spoke of a statutory...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special educational needs who are currently without a school place. [23804/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: How many children with special educational needs are currently without a school place?