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Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Every child has a right to an appropriate education. Year after year, we can set our watches by parents coming onto local radio stations, on the phone and through email to say that their child with additional needs cannot find a school place, only now it is the principals too who are on the local radio stations. Producers on those shows are ringing local TDs because they are so profoundly...

Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Is a copy of the speech made by the Minister of State, Deputy Murnane O'Connor, available?

Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I am asking if a copy is available.

Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Statements and conversations on mental health are always welcome, no matter where they take place. However, we must be very clear and cut through the soundbites coming from Government not only since the election, but since 2020. There are many words that the parents of children who are not only not on a CAMHS waiting list, but who cannot even get in the door of CAMHS to be put on a waiting...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 113. To ask the Taoiseach if he will establish a citizens’ assembly on Irish unity. [5435/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 115. To ask the Taoiseach if all participants in the Covid inquiry are being directed to the Protected Disclosures Commissioner. [5703/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider extending the pilots for enhanced in-school therapy supports to special schools in the midlands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5926/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the effectiveness and outcomes of the pilots for enhanced in-school therapy supports to special schools in the midlands are being monitored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5927/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if more schools in an area (details supplied) have been sanctioned to open an ASD class for 2025/2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic Violence (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 764. To ask the Minister for Health following the publishing of the National Clinical Practice Guideline on Screening and Management of Domestic Violence in Pregnancy and the Early Postnatal Period, if she will provide an update on any progress that has been made in relation to the development of a multi-component education and training programme for the multi-disciplinary team. [5881/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic Violence (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 765. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the National Clinical Practice Guideline on Screening and Management of Domestic Violence in Pregnancy and the Early Postnatal Period, when training will be mandatory for the awareness, screening, recognising, responding and referring of domestic violence for all midwives, nurses, doctors and health and social care professionals and students...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic Violence (18 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 766. To ask the Minister for Health how she is going to ensure that the National Clinical Practice Guideline on Screening and Management of Domestic Violence in Pregnancy and the Early Postnatal Period are fully implemented; and how she plans on monitoring both its effectiveness and adoption. [5883/25]

Road Safety: Statements (13 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: The Minister is correct when he speaks about complacency on the progress we have made. It is a significant problem. Every fatality and every life lost on our roads is one too many, and so are the life-changing injuries, where in a blink of an eye somebody's life has changed so profoundly, oftentimes because of a split-second decision that is made on our roads. I draw the House's...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (13 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given the increase in adaptation grants as announced in Budget 2025, it is a necessity of those who had previously applied under the old limits and were proceeding through the process, to submit a new application to their local authority. [5239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (13 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 275. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have been assessed through CDNT in Longford and Westmeath. [5242/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (13 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 276. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have been assessed through CDNT in Longford and Westmeath but have yet to be seen by intervention therapists. [5243/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (13 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 277. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of ASD assessment outsourced to private providers, per county of residence of the child, in each of the years 2022 to 2024, in tabular form. [5244/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: -----where he perpetrated these crimes. That is not acceptable. Will the Government move quickly to amend the legislation and any regulations necessary to ensure that CORU takes-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: -----a risk-based assessment as the basis for the regulation of professions and closes this loophole?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Feb 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach the very serious and concerning case of a personal trainer who operated a rehabilitation and fitness centre in Mullingar. This man has been convicted and sentenced for sexually assaulting a woman he was treating for chronic pain and covertly recording 18 hours of footage of another 35 women in various states of undress. However, on release from prison,...