• Labour TD for Dublin Central
• Former Labour Senator (Labour Panel)
• Entered the Dáil on 30 November 2024 — General election
• Entered the Seanad on 30 March 2020 — General election
• Left the Seanad on 29 November 2024 — Resigned
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): General Practitioner Services, Health Services, Departmental Data, Health Service Executive, Nursing Homes

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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (4 Dec 2025)

“I thank the Minister of State for that. We all appreciate the expansion in the number of places but the reality is that there was a time when Ministers here would get up and say that one did not need an assessment of need and that the education system did not need a diagnosis to provide additional support. Of course, that is the case for special schools but what we are seeing now is a...”

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (4 Dec 2025)

“I suspect I will be raising a lot of the issues Deputy Whitmore raised. I am coming to this from a position of enormous frustration because of the lack of co-ordination and planning within the Department of education in tandem with the Department of Health over many years. The parent notify system, in theory, is great. I know the date was, of course, brought forward this year to allow both...”

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Data (4 Dec 2025)

“423. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people on ophthalmology waiting lists in all hospitals offering ophthalmology services by length of time on such wait lists, and the average wait time someone can be expected to be seen in each of those hospitals if a referral is put in now, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68542/25]”

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• Has spoken in 90 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has spoken in 49 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among Senators.
• Has received answers to 595 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
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• 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.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 67 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 318 times in debates — average among Senators.
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