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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: At the beginning of December.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Not just in relation to the referendum but also in relation to the citizens' assembly report. The programme for Government commits to delivering on each and every one of its recommendations. My question relates to how we provide transparency and accountability in respect of each of the 41 recommendations. Will the Taoiseach consider something like a cross-departmental document similar to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Would the Taoiseach consider something similar for the citizens' assembly report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I think there is a little bit of cross-communication-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I agree with the Taoiseach. He has just made a very important point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I think that is a very important point to make. I agree with the statement the Taoiseach made on people often being ahead of the system and the politics. The reason I ask my question is that if there is not a clear response to those who participated in the Citizens' Assembly, particularly the one conducted during the Covid pandemic, which was a very difficult time, it may undermine the very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: At the beginning of December.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: If the options raised by Deputy Mairéad Farrell are available to the Minister, is there another set of disciplinary options, or potential disciplinary options, open to the Oireachtas? Is Mr. Moloney subject to two separate disciplinary systems? I refer to actions such as written warnings and the removal of allowances. Are there two parallel systems?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Regarding the referendum commission, I am paraphrasing here but I think the Taoiseach used the words "frustration" or "annoyance" with it being given a timeframe. I have to put it to the Taoiseach-----

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Along with my colleagues, I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion this evening. I too congratulate and praise Deputy Tully on her tireless work in the area of disability services. The statistics and the lives behind the figures for disability services are truly stark. Some 17,000 children are waiting on initial contact with a children's disability network team. Some 2,500 are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: As part of budget 2023, the temporary business energy support scheme was announced. I am sure the Taoiseach read the media coverage late last week like the rest of us. The scheme is limited to businesses that have profit from trade but excludes those that have profit from professions. There is already a shortage of dentists in my constituency. That will worsen if dentists are forced to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cost of Living Issues (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to providing the proposed €600 energy credit to those living off-grid and fuelling their own generators for electricity supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49796/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increasing the rate of remote working relief in view of the increase in inflation and cost of living. [49451/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 357. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence given the retention and recruitment crisis in the Defence Forces, and considering their experience and knowledge, the involvement that veterans and serving members have in recruitment in the Defence Forces. [49449/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 358. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the efforts he has made to stem the exodus of personnel from the Defence Forces. [49450/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide clarification as to the social welfare recipients who are eligible for the lump-sum payment announced as part of Budget 2023. [49795/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (6 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 90. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence in view of the increase in capital funding of €35 million in budget 2023, his plans for national security investment under his remit. [49010/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Naval Service (6 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 68. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagement that he has had with military management and his Department regarding a report that five apprentice electrical artificers who upon completion of their block placement were offered permanent employment and their defence contracts were bought out by the company with whom they were on placement. [49359/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (6 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement that he has had with the newly appointed UK Secretary of State regarding the outcome of the election and the establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Stormont. [49012/22]