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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: We are not going to get into every single model, but if we are using 2015 as a baseline, can Dr. Casey give us a clear example of one thing that would have an influence and one thing the council takes out because of its influence?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: In the calculations from 2015 up to now to determine the excess.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I had a question about procyclical policies.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Professor McMahon said it is how decisions are made.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: That spending could go to the health service, for example.

Education Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I echo what Deputy O'Reilly said about the need to actually support this motion. Education is the last great equaliser of society. While it is no load to bear, the opportunities it presents, particularly to those who were born into disadvantage, cannot be overestimated. I will briefly touch on some comments made by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and...

Education Costs: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — primary and post primary education in this State is intended to be "free" under the Constitution and in legislation, but the reality is profoundly different; — the cost-of-living crisis continues to put parents and students under significant financial pressure; — according to the most recent Irish League of Credit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for giving their time so freely, which is much appreciated. It is important that we hear different views on this issue. Dr. Mulligan is correct when she says this is complex and that is where those different views are so important to this committee because these are the views of so many other people in our communities and across the State. Nobody has a consensus on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: That is where my question focuses. Are we creating additional constitutional issues by loosening the blanket ban?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (20 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 619. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the review of community pharmacies services. [29175/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (20 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 620. To ask the Minister for Health the representative bodies he and his Department have engaged with as part of the review of community pharmacies services, the representative bodies that remain to be engaged with, and the timeline for such engagement. [29176/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (20 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 621. To ask the Minister for Health his and his Departments engagement to date with the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform in relation to an increase in dispensing fees for community pharmacies to €6.50 per medicine. [29177/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (20 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 622. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of increasing dispensing fees of community pharmacies, to a flat fee model of care being reimbursed at €6.50 per medicine. [29178/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Last Friday, just under 25,000 leaving certificate students sat down to do the higher level mathematics paper. It was a matter of hours before telephone lines to radio stations and social media platforms across the country lit up with the complaints and criticisms that students who had never sat a State examination before because of the pandemic were faced with such an inordinately difficult...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: -----and knock them for six so much that some have been left vomiting in bathrooms. That is what was reported.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Has the Taoiseach spoken to the Minister for Education. Has he spoken to the SEC? What commitment can he give to those students today about what this no cliff edge will look like for them?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Chair for allowing me in to ask questions today. It is very much appreciated. I want to go back to something discussed earlier. I do not want to put too much pressure on Ms Lyons but I cannot leave without asking this question. I ask it in a dual role, both as a parent of a child who has gone through a Gaelscoil before moving on to an English-medium secondary school and as the...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Some of it, I would hope.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Did any expression of interest for an aonad come from any of the schools in Mullingar?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tÉileamh don Ghaeloideachas: an Roinn Oideachais (14 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Nor am I. It is not a trick question. I am not aware of one either.