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Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Sorca Clarke: People with disabilities and carers in my constituency of Longford-Westmeath and across the State deserve much better than feeling abandoned and constantly let down by the Government. They need to see the delivery of substantial supports like assessments of need, therapy supports, personal assistants, home care assistants, assistive technology and respite. They need the Government to ratify...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Sorca Clarke: ...care or provider or care, cannot be here. They are tuned in online and on television. My party sees them, has their back, stands with them and wants to ensure their voices are heard. Every day, carers the length and breadth of Ireland perform an invaluable role that far too often goes unrecognised by Government. They are tired and exhausted and they feel strung along by platitudes...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I very much welcome the debate here this afternoon and the opportunity to contribute to it. Carers, be they women or men, play an absolutely crucial role in Irish society, yet too often their work goes unrecognised. Whether it is a lone parent, someone caring for an elderly relative or a relative with a disability, or someone raising young children, people from all kinds of families and all...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...in Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire will tell you that there has been a worsening element of antisocial behaviour in that area for years. However, it is has taken a brutal attack on children and their carer for the Minister to do the job for which she was appointed. In the position of Minister for Justice, where people's lives can be on the line, it is important to be proactive rather...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: I commend my colleague, Deputy Tully, on her tireless work on this issue and for those with disabilities. Family carers have been held up for a long time as a crucial pillar who save the State billions of euro annually, yet time and again they do not receive the supports they need and that they rightly deserve. For the 500,000 family carers throughout the country who give the State and...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...of households in energy poverty has increased to 29%. Everything is going up. Even when cutting back, the gaps between income and outgoings are widening. Pensioners, people with disability, carers and loan parents are the ones who desperately need this spring bonus. We also need to see the fuel allowance extended to recipients of the working family payment. I do not for one moment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...the Department's perspective, I want to focus on those education barriers. In September, the Minister announced a fund of €2 million to support and improve employment opportunities for family carers. In relation to those education barriers, can the officials give us an idea of the training and employment supports that are available? How does the Department measure and quantify...

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

Sorca Clarke: ...boat it has sourced. It is vital that this equipment is provided, as it opens up opportunities to people, many of whom have no day-to-day interaction with people outside of their family and carers. It is a unique opportunity. I urge the Minister of State to make contact with them, reach out to them and offer them support, as she has done previously. I give credit to her for that. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of first-time applications for carers benefit that were granted 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, by county in tabular form. [38705/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of first-time applications for carers benefit that were refused in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, by county in tabular form [38706/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of first-time applications for carers allowance that were granted 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38707/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of first-time applications for carers allowance that were refused 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, by county in tabular form. [38708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Jul 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals following refusal of an application for carer's benefit received in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [38709/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Jul 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals following refusal of an application for carer's allowance received in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [38710/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2022)

Sorca Clarke: It is something that this committee has heard about, particularly as it relates to younger carers who have a caring role but do not identify themselves as carers because, for example, they do not believe they are full-time carers if they are going to school or to part-time work. There is a wider question around the definition of caring and what care looks like, be it in the home or the community.

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...accident and emergency departments are through the roof and staff are at the end of their tether. That is before we even get to disability intervention therapy services or respite care, which has carers and loved ones so distressed and disillusioned they are literally in tears. Has this become so commonplace that the Minister and Members of Government are utterly unaffected by the sight...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...in some respects needs to be a little more structured than it is at the moment. It is too narrow in many respects. As Ms Duffy said, people who do not provide personal care believe they are not a carer. That is not true. The first issue is why we are not asking the right questions. The second is that we will not get the information we need to address the needs of carers now and in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: There was a very specific reason I asked that question. There is a man in my constituency who I would know quite well whose career is a carer. That is his job and what he does. He would also have caring responsibilities outside of his job. However, his employer has come to him repeatedly to take on additional work because the clients they work with, particularly older men, would prefer to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (29 Mar 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 177. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the State’s employment policy which permits non-EEA citizens to work as carers in hospitals and nursing homes but not in home care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16670/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys and Update on Afghanistan: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (31 Aug 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...that Katherine Zappone would have been receiving? If so, when did that take place? Does the Minister now accept, understand and relate to the level of hurt and insult caused to many people who are carers in this State or who are in receipt of State pensions by the flippant and throwaway remarks made concerning a nominal salary of €15,000 a year? That is more than our State...