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Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: ...I stood in Dunnes Stores in the period between the general election and the Dáil's first sitting, I got a phone call from the community psychologist to tell me that my daughter's referral had landed back on her desk and there was nothing she could do except send it back to my GP. Finally, after a third referral, she was seen in 2022, having been on the list for around three months....

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: ...a reasonable level of support, yet any carer will tell us about the distress and daily struggle they face trying to keep on top of their basic bills, and that is before the increased cost of living landed on top of them. This should be a matter of shame for a wealthy country such as ours and it should not be considered progress. There needs to be a more robust text put in place. If...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...has been in homeless accommodation, to link in with a bus that passes 2 km from their house. Another email stated that the pupils of three schools will have to walk to a cark park through a greenway and the waste land beyond it - a 15 to 20 minute walk depending on the school. These families understand that school transport is not a door-to-door service. What they do not understand is...

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

Sorca Clarke: ...has no interest in tackling the struggles people are facing. It has no interest in assisting them in their time of need. The energy credits were mentioned. They were gone before the money ever landed in anyone's bank account or came directly off the bill. The question, therefore, again stands. What is the Government going to do to cut energy costs and to give households struggling in...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (8 Feb 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 182. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the land and buildings owned or leased by his Department in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [5904/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (2 Feb 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update regarding the proposed transfer of lands from his Department to the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4774/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Corps (24 Nov 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...framework being in place, my concern is that we are not looking in the exact areas that the Air Corps need to be and wants to be looking. No matter which way one looks at this State, we may be 30% land and 70% water, but we are 100% air, and that is why a doctrine such as this is of such importance. Without that comprehensive military air doctrine being in place, I fear that there will...

Defence Forces: Motions (5 Jul 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...and overtasked. That anyone would presume to expand overseas involvement, at a time when members of our Defence Forces are undertaking free work and are exhausted as they conduct their duties on land, at sea and in the air from a position that is far off that phantom establishment of 9,500 members, is simply not good enough. They are underpaid and denied basic employment rights. The...

Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...food on the table and contributed to local shops and the local economy. There is now a very ambitious plan to build a boardwalk on the Roscommon side of the River Shannon that would link to the islands and then, further on, on the Longford side, connect to another boardwalk on that side of the Shannon. I understand the cost of this would be approximately €10 million, including...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...campaigning, fighting and, in some instances, begging for healthcare, we are standing here today with a Government that has signed off on a deal that fails to deliver a public hospital on public land. Instead, it has signed us up to a convoluted lease that will run for 300 years. It is obvious to the most uneducated person in economics out there that the investment of €1 billion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Barriers Facing Those Returning to Live in Ireland: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...still such an issue. To be blunt, it has broken my heart in my constituency office on occasion. I am speaking specifically of a woman and two children who left a domestic violence situation and landed in to me literally with just the clothes on their backs. The main barrier for them was the habitual residence condition. It added a level of trauma to what was already a traumatic...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (9 Feb 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 84. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department is undertaking a feasibility study on the future use of Cathal Brugha Barracks as correspondence confirms that the Land Development Agency is not; if his attention has been drawn to that the fact that it has been confirmed that the Land Development Agency has not had engaged with his Department or the Department of Housing,...

Freedom of Information Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Feb 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...coverage. Where a company becomes a public body, it would be immediately brought under the Freedom of Information Act. There would be no period of six months' exclusion, as we have seen with the Land Development Agency. We need to provide SIPO with the power to investigate those who are failing in their obligations. There is simply no justification in the Government amendment to put...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petitions on Unauthorised Developments (9 Dec 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...Council. The sheer quantity of paperwork and records on file then was mind-boggling. I have a couple of observations. I am beyond concerned that we have this scale of development on State-owned land and it has been going on now for almost ten years. Mr. Barrett is correct that there needs to be development along our lakeshores but it needs to be appropriate and compliant with the...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill today. I acknowledge the amount of work that has already been put into it in the Seanad. As someone from a rural constituency in the midlands, the issues and concerns regarding land and conveyancing can have a profound impact. I, and my constituents, want to see something that is fit for purpose, that does not have an adversarial starting...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (12 Oct 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 243. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagement between his Department, the Land Development Agency and a group (details supplied) regarding the future of Columb Barracks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49925/21]

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...that it makes no sense whatsoever. The Minister also mentioned Bord na Móna. Let us talk about that for a moment, in particular the so-called energy park to be developed on 7,400 acres of a land bank in counties Offaly, Meath and Westmeath to co-locate 200 MW of electricity generated by wind, solar and green hydrogen production. Bord na Móna expects to lodge planning within...

Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (28 Sep 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...expenditure. There is not, nor can there ever be, justification for any period of exemption under FOI legislation when a private company becomes a public body, as happened, for example, with the Land Development Agency. The powers of the Information Commissioner need to be enhanced to ensure that a body is able to refer complaints under FOI to the Standards in Public Office Commission...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Sorca Clarke: Free sale, fixity of tenure and fair rent were the three Fs demanded by the Land League many years ago. Yet here we are today, with many renters in a very similar situation to that of their ancestors. In my constituency of Longford-Westmeath, the average rents may be below the national average but they are rising quickly. As one constituent put it to me, "It is only upwards that they go."...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...moving down through the terms of reference that are laid out and I will touch on cybersecurity. There is no doubt higher priority needs to be given to cybersecurity and tackling cybercrime in Ireland. This was a major aspect of that webinar. We hold 30% of Europe's data due to international companies located here and there is a huge range of talent in that environment in the private...