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Joe O'Brien TD
- Green Party TD for Dublin Fingal
- Entered the Dáil on 29 November 2019 — Byelection
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Voting record
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Committees and topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Covid-19 Pandemic Supports, Medicinal Products, Pigmeat Sector, Schools Building Projects
(based on written questions asked by Joe O'Brien and answered by departments)
Most recent appearances in parliament
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (2 May 2024)
“My Department of Rural and Community Development's Community Services Programme (CSP) currently supports over 430 community-based organisations, to provide local services through a social enterprise model. CSP provides an annual co-funding contribution towards each full-time equivalent (FTE) position being supported, and, where warranted, towards the cost of employing a manager. ...”
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (30 Apr 2024)
“My Department administers a number of funding streams addressing integration by way of annual and multi-annual grants. I have been working to maximise these funds to support excellent work and proposed work across communities in every corner of Ireland, to help migrants to settle in. Despite recent negative events, this remains the more dominant response of Irish communities to new...”
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (30 Apr 2024)
“The Deputy makes a number of good points. With smaller funds, such as the community integration fund, we keep the administration level down as much as possible because we want local groups like that to be able to apply for it, so we do our best to keep it as simple as possible. However, with higher amounts of money, when you are talking about hundreds of thousands of euro, a higher level of...”
Numerology
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- Has spoken in 46 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
- Has received answers to 4 written questions in the last year — well below 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 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
- 3 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Joe O'Brien speaks.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 242 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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