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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (20 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of middle management positions in primary schools which were removed or scaled back during the austerity years that have been reintroduced per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18804/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (20 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of middle management positions in secondary schools which were removed or scaled back during the austerity years that have been reintroduced per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18805/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (20 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary schools that do not have a home economics teacher in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, by county, in tabular form. [18807/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (20 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the initiatives, if any, she intends to roll-out to ensure that the number of special needs teachers matches the number of students who need them. [18808/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in County Westmeath in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and the number planned to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in County Longford in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and the number planned to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, in tabular form....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (20 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the development of two marinas at Nutgrove Marina, Williamstown, and Whitegate, County Clare, as these marinas appear to be outside the jurisdiction line; and if there is either an encroachment licence or a lease in place with Waterways Ireland. [18806/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sexual assaults reported in Irish hospitals in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [18810/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (20 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant lecture positions per National University and subject in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [18809/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (19 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: What I have heard in the Minister of State's speech is essentially what the local authorities are saying on the ground. It is not his responsibility; it is the local authority's responsibility. In the case of the local authorities they tell people they are not refusing homeless support because they have told them to go to Midlands Simon Community. That is not tangible support. People...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (19 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: If you were to believe everything you see in the media, you would almost think this country was a doughnut, in many respects, but I am here to reassure the Minister of State it is not. The midlands is experiencing the housing crisis as deeply as all the cities. How does the Minister of State intend to deal specifically with rural Ireland when it comes to the additional challenges of...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Last year, the Government promised to deliver 4,000 affordable homes. It failed and failed miserably. Instead, just over 1,700 homes were delivered across all affordable housing delivery streams. This is a shocking indictment and again shows that the Government is failing to ensure that people can access affordable homes to rent and to buy. Coming up to its third year in office, what my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for attending. This is one of the rare occasions when I agree with everything that people on the other side of the room have said. I make no apologies for that. I love STEM. The witnesses can ask Deputy Farrell, who is sitting beside me. I am an unrepentant geek. However, it takes more than being a geek to have an interest in STEM subjects. I was delighted to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Professor McCormack spoke about the societal and cultural bias and the conscious and unconscious elements of that. I sat on the Joint Committee on Gender Equality, which reported just before Christmas. This was an area of which the citizens' assembly recommended further examination. One issue that came through strongly at the Joint Committee on Gender Equality related to the fact we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for joining us. Mr. Scattergood hit the nail on the head when speaking about the routes through education and to a career. We do not live in a society – if we are honest with ourselves, we have not done so for quite some time – where someone’s route through school and college looks like a motorway. In the majority of cases, it looks like a country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: It is a type of unconscious bias.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Looking back over his training, both on-site and academic, does Mr. Bermingham see any areas in which there needs to be improvement or things that can be done better?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: It should not come down to luck as to where people are sent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: The concern I have regarding a student having the option to do a subject outside of school is that as there is also a student who does not have that option, we are further embedding inequality. Parents have to have access to the resources, to the transport and to the time. There is an additional pressure put on those who are least in a position to be able to meet those additional asks of...