• Fianna Fail TD for Kildare North
• Entered the Dáil on 27 February 2016 — General election
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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

“We have received apologies from Senator Vincent P. Martin and Deputy Mark Ward. Senator Robbie Gallagher is hoping to join us but has another engagement. I will begin with the usual housekeeping to remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones or switch them to flight mode so they do not interfere with the recording. The purpose of the meeting today is to consider a...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

“This is not PLS. This is pre-Committee Stage scrutiny. This Bill has gone through Second Stage and has been referred to us to see whether it would pass. It is the tollgate stage to decide whether we allow the Bill to progress through to the next Stage. I think it will come back around for PLS after that. Am I right in saying there is a full PLS?”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

“Okay. It is in keeping with the memorandum of understanding at the start of the Oireachtas term, which we also followed for Deputy Gino Kenny's Bill. On that Bill we took a different approach because it was a wider subject matter and we had multiple submissions on that, over 1,000 actually. That was a little bit unusual. Normally, we are governed by the memorandum of understanding the...”

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• Has spoken in 50 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 296 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 221 times in debates — well below average among TDs.
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