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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: What is the Taoiseach's response to the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service study finding that the operational costs for commercially owned refugee centres are nearly twice as high as those provided by the State, and to the review's finding that congregated settings for refugees will continue for many years to come? The paper on international protection support services...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: And the electricity prices.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: If it does not, will the Government look at their statutory remit?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: We know wholesale electricity prices fell 42% in the year to April and, as Professor Edgar Morgenroth of DCU noted, it is likely that some, if not most, of the future contracts purchased last year are now largely finished, yet the cost of electricity in Ireland is the highest in Europe, with a unit cost that is nearly twice the European average. It is astonishing that consumers are being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: We are a couple of weeks out from this year's leaving certificate examinations and there is still no certainty about when those exam results will be released. It was anticipated that we would see a return to the traditional mid-August release, but the Minister for Education is unable to confirm whether this will be the case. Recent media comments by the Minister for Education appear to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: The witnesses are very welcome. It is a privilege to hear directly from them and the experience of students going through our education system who have the challenge of being visually impaired or blind. I have some specific questions. I might group them together and if the witnesses could come back with their observations, that would be fantastic. Mr. Mullaniff described inclusive and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Their options.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Regarding the issues around the summer programme and access to the good old July provision, what additional challenges are there? If blind or visually impaired children are not participating in the school-based programme but instead are participating in the home-based programme, what additional challenges are they experiencing? Regarding leaving certificate reform, has the NCBI had any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: If I was a tutor for the July provision, where would I go to learn and upskill to work with blind or visually impaired children?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I welcome Mr. Geary. I do not intend to use our five minutes just with myself speaking. I want to ask two very specific questions because I think it is important that Mr. Geary's voice, the voice of his family and the voice of Calum are heard. I hope Calum is doing well. I understand he is at Bishopstown Community School. I hope he is enjoying his time, making lots of new friends and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: On my first question, when Mr. Geary's family first came to be in this situation of needing sign language and knew this was going to be embedded in the family from that day forward, what supports were offered to them at that time? Was it whole-of-family support? Was it a very slow process? What does Mr. Geary want implemented so other families do not end up in the same situation? ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Am I correct in saying that if there is a lack of capability, resources or knowledge in a family as to where to go to seek the additional support available in the various non-governmental sectors, that family is then at a further disadvantage to another family who needs the support?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 743. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of hospitals not accepting referrals for patients who availed of the cross-border initiative for treatment, despite HSE guidelines which assure patients that should complications arise they have the right "to access the Irish health care system to put it right"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24197/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: No engaging in any amount of misinformation is going to put a headstone on the grave of that woman's husband. This is a simple fact. Equally, it will not put money in the bank account of people like that other lady in Dublin who has a colossal gas bill. The Minister mentioned child benefit and this aspect will be welcomed by all parents because they already have the bills these funds will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Nothing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: Will this be the same as retail companies?-

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: The cost-of-living crisis is pushing households to the brink. Price hike after price hike has workers and families to the pin of their collars, with no sign of the spiralling costs coming down. It is plain to see that people cannot afford Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in government any longer. People are at their wits' end. Rents are soaring, mortgage interest rates are rocketing and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Textbooks (16 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: The Minister had two minutes to answer, but she only spent about 15 seconds addressing the question, which was about the process. What was the basis of assessment, what benchmarking was done, what market research was carried out and what costings were done? I hear what the Minister said regarding the three-year pilot and a range of data, but what I am looking for is the actual range of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Textbooks (16 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: The Minister spoke about the three-year pilot programme and that information on same is available on the Department's website. That information makes clear reference to classroom resources, which goes beyond schoolbooks, workbooks and copybooks. It specifically mentions that the money is not for swimming lessons, for example. Of the range of data compiled and correlated over the three...