• Fine Gael TD for Cavan-Monaghan
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Heather Humphreys speaks (no more than once per day)

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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Grant Payments, Medical Card Applications, Carer's Allowance Appeals, Garda Transport, Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments

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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 May 2024)

“Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is a monthly allowance payable in respect a child aged under 16 who has a severe disability requiring continual or continuous care and attention substantially in excess of the care and attention normally required by a child of the same age, and the child must be likely to require this level of care for at least 12 consecutive months. Where an application...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 May 2024)

“My Department administers more than 90 separate schemes and services, which affect the lives of almost every person in the State. We are fully committed to ensuring that members of the public are aware of the welfare supports and services available, and to promoting social security as an investment. My Department actively works to encourage take up of benefits and entitlements by promoting...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (16 May 2024)

“The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned of her Carer’s Benefit claim was...”

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• Has spoken in 60 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• People have made 1 comment 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.
• 68 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Heather Humphreys speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1196 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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