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Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Sorca Clarke: People with disabilities and carers in my constituency of Longford-Westmeath and across the State deserve much better than feeling abandoned and constantly let down by the Government. They need to see the delivery of substantial supports like assessments of need, therapy supports, personal assistants, home care assistants, assistive technology and respite. They need the Government to ratify...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I wish a very happy International Women's Day to all the ladies in the Ceann Comhairle's world. International Women’s Day is a day when we can celebrate the advances and achievements by women across the globe towards gender equality. Women who wanted a better life for themselves, their daughters and their granddaughters made sacrifices to make the mountain that little bit taller...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (5 Mar 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the national action plan on bullying. [10679/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (5 Mar 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 597. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many international protection applicants are currently being accommodated in County Longford, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10701/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for attending. I also thank my committee colleagues and the committee secretariat for ensuring we are all here today having this conversation, because it is very important. Ms McDonagh is absolutely correct; 700 principals have stated they are concerned about this move. To my mind, one of the fundamental issues with the proposed reallocation is that, on the one hand,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I want to go back to something that my colleague, Deputy Mairéad Farrell, touched on earlier and that is the role of NEPS and what exactly NEPS does and does not do. In my experience a family who are frustrated and in a position they have never been in before will reach out for any and all straws in the hope of getting some form of assistance provided to their child. In 2013, NEPS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will pause the new planned changes to the special education teacher allocation until such time as comprehensive engagement has been had with parents of autistic children and parents of children with complex needs. [9827/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legislation under which an EU/EEA national, habitually resident in Ireland for five years, is required to provide documentary evidence of having worked for 52 weeks in the State and have a minimum of 52 weeks PRSI contributions and/or show evidence of current employment where they pay PRSI contributions to be eligible to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht (Atógáil) - Questions on Policy or Legislation (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: More than half of our domestic violence refuges around the country are full and local refuges are being forced to turn women and children away. Many of those women and children, in turn, have to travel to other parts of the country simply to seek safety. This is happening at a time when the Garda has told us it has received more than 60,000 calls concerning domestic abuse. Last December,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht (Atógáil) - Questions on Policy or Legislation (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: While plans to build a new, purpose-built refuge centre already exist on paper, a suitable site is lacking and this is holding up the project. Will the Minister offer assistance to Esker House in sourcing a new site? If no site can be identified, how does the Government intend to meet its own targets and where will women and children in desperate need of safety go?

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: The crisis in youth mental health has turned into an emergency under this Government and there is no way the Ministers of State can deny that. Under this Government, the CAMHS waiting list for first-time appointments in CHO 8, which covers my constituency of Longford-Westmeath, has grown from 270 in July 2022 to 695, which is the last available number. The number of young people waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (27 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that has been allocated to County Offaly on an annual basis from central government to Offaly County Council from January 2020 to date for the repair, upgrade and maintenance of roads in the county; the amount spent by Offaly County Council annually during this same period on the county's roads in the local...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (27 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding his Department intends to allocate in 2024 to maintain, repair and upgrade roads in County Offaly in each of the three local electoral areas of Edenderry, Tullamore and Birr; and what plans his Department has to address to the appalling state of the roads throughout the county, particularly in north Offaly, which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 486. To ask the Minister for Health when the medical cards of persons (details supplied) are due to expire. [8673/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Yesterday, Inclusion Ireland and AsIAm outlined their profound concern following a survey reporting that 35% of disabled children experience seclusion and 27% of disabled children suffer restraint at school. These are children who have been locked in rooms alone, dragged across floors or have been held or lifted against their will. Parents spoke of feeling powerless, in fear of retribution...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: It speaks to a lack of guidelines.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: It has been 14 years-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: -----and current guidelines-----

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Sinn Féin appreciates the value of this scheme which has provided shelter to those fleeing war and thanks should be given to the families who have opened up their homes, welcomed and provided refuge to Ukrainian families in their hour of need. However, the further extension of the scheme, as the Minister is putting forward, creates an unacceptable level of competition for private...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (20 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households, per county, who are currently approved for works under the warmer homes scheme for which the works have yet to commence. [8107/24]