• Fine Gael TD for Cavan-Monaghan
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Heather Humphreys speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Grant Payments, Medical Card Applications, Carer's Allowance Appeals, Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments, Agriculture Schemes Payments

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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Register Office (30 Apr 2024)

“The research room is based in Werburgh Street, Dublin and is operated by staff from the General Register Office and operates under the aegis of my Department. Prior to Covid-19 the office opened 5 days a week. The enforced closure of the office to the public during Covid highlighted an issue around access to the records held in the research room. Access to the indexes used for research...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (30 Apr 2024)

“The Deputy will appreciate that I cannot comment or intervene on the pension arrangements applying to a particular pension scheme. My Department has no role in setting the level of pension increases received by members of occupational pension schemes, irrespective of whether those schemes operate in the public or private sector. Pension increases for occupational pensions are a matter...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 Apr 2024)

“Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I confirm that my department received an application for DA from this person on 21...”

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• Has spoken in 58 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 1 comment on this TD's speeches — 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.
• 68 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Heather Humphreys speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1174 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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