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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that students with special educational needs (SEN) receive the necessary accommodations for the oral examinations due to take place this Easter; her plans to ensure that students with SEN have equity of access to and participation in assessment and examination activities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1481/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 614 of 21 March 2023, the status of the work referred to relating to school caretakers; and when this work will be progressed and completed. [1568/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what plans are in place to ensure school caretakers will be afforded the opportunity to avail of a similar deal as school secretaries. [1569/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on any recent engagements her Department has had with a union (details supplied) with regard to school caretakers. [1570/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a survivor (details supplied) will receive housing supports and the owed services as promised; if she can provide an update on this particular case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1590/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing school meals to every primary school where there is established deprivation but no DEIS classification, by county, in tabular form. [57349/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 933. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of the total number of children who have received the back-to-school payment to date; the number of children who are expected to receive the payment in the coming weeks; and the total amount spent on this allowance to date, in tabular form. [57351/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a permanent ISL voucher scheme. [57353/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 21 November 2023, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities to have this PQ answered. [1469/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1391. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of resourcing supports for students with SEN, including proper access to therapeutic supports in mainstream schools and reducing waiting times for assessments, in tabular form. [57355/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1392. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of establishing an initial panel of 200 speech and language therapists for schools as a shared resource. [57358/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in the accident and emergency department of Mullingar Regional Hospital as of 5 January 2024; and if he will provide same figures as of 5 January 2021, in tabular form. [1470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1735. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend eligibility for the long-term illness scheme for reimbursement of blood glucose test strips (insulin and metformin) to all women who develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy; if he agrees with the decision to remove them from the scheme; if he will reverse that decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1619/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1736. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy in each of the years 2018 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1620/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1874. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a fund is available to assist in the procurement of C02 alarms for vulnerable people and people in isolated areas. [1672/24]

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I very much welcome the debate here this afternoon and the opportunity to contribute to it. Carers, be they women or men, play an absolutely crucial role in Irish society, yet too often their work goes unrecognised. Whether it is a lone parent, someone caring for an elderly relative or a relative with a disability, or someone raising young children, people from all kinds of families and all...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Sorca Clarke: It is durable relationship, with respect. The library and research service highlighted that it was not mentioned by the Oireachtas committee or the citizens’ assembly but it is used in European law.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister. I did not intend to make reference to his opening statement when I came in today. As somebody who was raised in a single-parent household, however, I feel compelled to do so. We need to congratulate, acknowledge and celebrate those women, the grannies - and in my case soon-to-be great-granny - for the work they have done in building those stable homes and nurturing...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (12 Dec 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 185. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his current plan to maintain the historical jail and church in Columb Barracks, Mullingar. [54650/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (12 Dec 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what plans she has in place to ensure that the profound impact the changing of bus routes 17 and 18 is having on the students from a school (details supplied) is dealt with accordingly. [54596/23]