• Fine Gael TD for Kildare South
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Martin Heydon speaks (no more than once per day)

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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Schools Building Projects Status, Tax Code, Broadband Service Provision, Special Educational Needs Service Provision, Departmental Contracts Data

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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Sector (4 Dec 2025)

“Reports of the Farmers Journal investigation into the sale of hormones and antibiotics in Brazil raise important issues and merit careful examination. We know that Brazilian beef already enters the EU market, and it is therefore important to ensure that none of the unregulated products referenced in the investigation are used in its production. According to Central Statistics Office...”

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (4 Dec 2025)

“My Department provides a range of financial supports that focus on compensating farmers for both direct and indirect losses incurred as a result of a TB breakdown on the farm. The primary support scheme is the On Farm Market Valuation scheme, where animals removed as reactors receive compensation equivalent to what their market value would have been if they had not been disclosed as TB...”

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (4 Dec 2025)

“Teagasc is the national body for providing integrated research, advisory and training services to the agriculture and food industry and rural communities. It is an body that operates under the aegis of my Department and receives substantial funding from my Department's annual Voted allocation. Teagasc's current and capital allocations for each of the years requested are as set out in the...”

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• Has spoken in 45 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.
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• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 40 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Martin Heydon speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 420 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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