• Aontú TD for Meath West
• Changed party from Independent on 28 Jan 2019; from Sinn Fein on 15 Nov 2018
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Departmental Data, Departmental Properties, Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Staff

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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (23 May 2024)

“229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans to alleviate the crisis of prisoner overcrowding for prisoners and staff where there has been a substantial increase in the prison population in all prisons countrywide, and in view of the plans for Thornton Hall to be used for IPAS, which was originally intended as a site for a new prison; and if she will make a...”

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (23 May 2024)

“230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of male and female prisoners in each prison; the number of prison rooms per each prison; and the number occupying each prison room in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [23344/24]”

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

“Two months ago, the Government disastrously lost two referendums. It spent €23 million to run the referendums. At the time, we in Aontú, the only party that opposed the referendums, stated clearly that the Government was misleading the people in respect of the tax elements that would affect the people, what was meant by durable relationships and how the courts would see it, and...”

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• Has spoken in 146 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 1068 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 3 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 75 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Peadar Tóibín speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1145 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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