• Ceann Comhairle TD for Kildare South
• Changed party from Fianna Fail on 10 Mar 2016
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Schools Building Projects, Health Services, Medical Cards, Medical Card Applications, Garda Deployment

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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)

“It seems to me that the NCSE is the body that has significant questions to answer about how it conducts its business, if it took three years to conclude what the Department had concluded in 2021. There is progress. The Minister is going to meet and hopefully matters will move on for the children, who are the most important people, and they will be looked after.”

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)

“Before I call the Minister of State to respond, I wish to make the procedures here quite clear. When a Deputy tables an issue for a Topical Issue debate and it is selected, the Department is notified. If the Department is not able to supply a Minister or a Minister of State, the Department is required to contact the Member and tell them so. The Member may then decide to proceed with the...”

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)

“Am I to understand from the reply that the Department carried out an in-depth review of the site in 2021 and that it took until January 2024 for the NCSE to confirm that three classes were needed, which it knew were needed before it started in the first place? Is that what the reply is saying?”

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• Has spoken in 492 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• People have made 2 comments on this TD's speeches — above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 14–15 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 43 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Seán Ó Fearghaíl speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1368 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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