• Fine Gael TD for Limerick County
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Medical Cards, Departmental Funding, Single Payment Scheme Payments, Grant Payments

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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reports (1 May 2025)

“I welcome the ESRI’s research, published on 25 April, profiling Short Term Letting (STL) usage across Ireland. The research is based on data scraped from one STL platform at a point in time in September 2023. This data is less complete than the Fáilte Ireland data, which is up to date, gives a monthly breakdown and is based on data-scraping from the four largest booking...”

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (1 May 2025)

“The Department's role in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national tourism policy and implementation of that policy is a matter for the tourism agencies, Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland. The matter raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for Fáilte Ireland. Accordingly, I have referred this question to that agency for direct response to the Deputy....”

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (1 May 2025)

“The Department's role in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national tourism policy and implementation of that policy is a matter for the tourism agencies, Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland. The matter raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for Fáilte Ireland as "hotel" is a prescribed term and all hotels operating in Ireland as such must be registered on...”

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• Has spoken in 15 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 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 17–18 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") 587 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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