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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: I thank the officials.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: No, they were very reasonable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: From memory, the contributor from yesterday mentioned by the Cathaoirleach pointed to another scheme introduced many years ago for survivors of, I think, a blood disorder to get a medical card.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Sorry, I am working from memory.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: The Christine Buckley Centre.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: I do not.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2024 (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what funding her Department will allocate to the National Educational Psychological Service as part of Budget 2024. [45498/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils, who had direct involvement with psychologists of the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) in the school years 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021 and 2019/2020, in tabular form. [45516/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the pilot counselling programmes in primary schools in terms of pupils directly engaged, per year, in tabular form. [45517/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: 231. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the funding announced as part of Budget 2024 under Programme D - An Equal and Inclusive Society which states "Funding will primarily focus on additional therapy assistant posts, additional supports across a number of targeted children's services and on the expansion of educational programmes in this area" if...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: 232. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the funding announced as part of Budget 2024 under Programme D - An Equal and Inclusive Society which states "Funding will primarily focus on additional therapy assistant posts, additional supports across a number of targeted children's services and on the expansion of educational programmes in this area" to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2024 (18 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: 263. To ask the Minister for Health what funding his Department will allocate to the National Educational Psychological Service as part of Budget 2024. [45499/23]
- Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Each and every one of the letters I hold today has come from a user of the services of the Irish Wheelchair Association in Mullingar. They were dropped into my office yesterday by somebody who works with them. I will use their words to describe how they are feeling. The first letter states: I am a person with a disability and rely heavily on my personal assistant from the Irish...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Will the Minister outline to the House where the counselling and well-being service ceases and NEPS steps in? There seems to be a level of confusion, particularly if we look at the budget for 2024. The budget for NEPS last year was €33 million, while this year, in the Minister's budget, it is €9.7 million. That is a considerable drop. Will the Minister outline the impact or...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: We could almost set our watches at this point for when the phones will start ringing and the emails will start coming in with school transport queries. This year was no different. In many ways, it is becoming Groundhog Day. Year in and year out, there are issues with the school transport scheme. While the €50 million is welcome, as would be any investment in school transport, we...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: That has not been my experience. I have a case where one brother got a ticket and the other did not. Their mother told me she would be driving behind the school bus. That is not an unusual or unique situation. When parents contact Bus Éireann, they are met by a disregard almost for the query they have and the pressure this scheme puts them under. While I acknowledge the funding...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Everybody wants to see those ended but it means proper resourcing for schools.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Additional, from January.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Permanent.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capitation Grants (17 Oct 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Permanent.