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Sorca Clarke TD

- Sinn Fein TD for Longford-Westmeath
- Entered the Dáil on 9 February 2020 — General election
- Email me whenever Sorca Clarke speaks (no more than once per day)
Voting record
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Committees and topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Special Educational Needs, Defence Forces, Mental Health Services, School Transport, An Garda Síochána
(based on written questions asked by Sorca Clarke and answered by departments)
Most recent appearances in parliament
- Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)
“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...”
- Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)
“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)
“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...”
Numerology
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- Has spoken in 37 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
- Has received answers to 571 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
- People have made 0 comments on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
- This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
- 31 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Sorca Clarke speaks.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 224 times in debates — average among TDs.
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