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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: There are good working relationships 99% of the time between schools and the NCSE when it comes to opening ASD classes. The same can be said for this specific school in Athlone, which already has an ASD class in its Gaelscoil. However, the Minister of State is familiar with the 2022 document entitled "Autism Good Practice Guidance for Schools", which clearly states that autistic students...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an updated list of all primary and post-primary schools that have been sanctioned for an ASD class for the 2025-26 school year. [39382/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I want to ask in particular about the schools in which these works are ongoing but yet to be completed and by which a letter of suppression has been received.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I cannot accept what the Minister of State has said to me. I know what he has said to be untrue. I am happy to share information with him after this session. I have stood in a school in Athlone - Scoil na gCeithre Máistrí - that was approached by the NCSE to open a second ASD class. I stood in the classroom. The plaster was drying on the wall when the letter of suppression came...

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Pride is about continuing solidarity with the members of the LGBT community we are lucky enough to call friends, privileged enough to call family and also the wider community. It is also about remembering how far that community has come, how we got here and why we, as a collective, must never take the progress made for granted. The LGBT+ community has in the past been a painful...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of services for endometriosis assessment and treatment at Mullingar Regional Hospital; if a specialised multidisciplinary team is in place; if diagnostic imaging and laparoscopy procedures are available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39886/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 251. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on current waiting times for endometriosis related services at Mullingar Regional Hospital; the number of patients awaiting each stage of care; and the way in which these waiting times compare with the national average. [39887/25]

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: While the establishment of the long-overdue commission of investigation cannot but be welcomed, I will not, in good conscience, applaud a process that has taken far too long to come into being. I think today particularly of the older survivors I have met and engaged with. They expressed to me how they felt through the years that the State was waiting for them to die, hoping time would erase...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, regarding payments requested from parents for children in primary school, if a school may charge a mandatory fee; if the amount being charged in a school (details supplied) is acceptable; if the full fee is not paid, whether the school can withhold group activities like tin-whistle lessons from a child; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools, including their ethos, who have received suppression of special class notices to date in 2025, including the number of these classes, in tabular form per county; to include those which were due to open for the school year 2025/2026, the maximum capacity of each and the financial expenditure incurred to date in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the special education or ASD classes sanctioned in 2024 and 2025, including those who have received suppression notices, the cost of all forms of consultancy fees associated with each individual sanctioned rooms or classes. [38404/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills where a sanction for a special class has been revoked via a suppression notice, to outline the step by step process, including the key decision makers involved, the engagement with the school, the NCSE and the parents who have enrolled children in these classes for the upcoming school year. [38411/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the number of Gaelscoileanna that have requested to alter their ethos contrary to the Autism Good Practice Guidance for Schools (details supplied). [38402/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mental Health Services (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 309. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the specific and tailored mental health supports available to people living with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, in line with international best practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38572/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 321. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant psychiatrists based in the Kerry mental health team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [38345/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dietitians, by grade, based at Monksland Primary Care Centre, Athlone, in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [38346/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 323. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on new capital investments and major new equipment purposes and new healthcare initiatives that will be rolled out in County Longford across 2025. [38347/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant psychiatrists based in the Mayo mental health team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [38348/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists, by grade, based at Mullingar Primary Care Centre in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [38349/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 326. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within CHO9 where Jigsaw youth mental health services are located, in tabular form. [38350/25]