• Fine Gael TD for Kerry
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Brendan Griffin speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Grant Payments, Social Welfare Benefits, Tax Code, Social Welfare Appeals, Covid-19 Pandemic

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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (25 Apr 2024)

“19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff, including total WTE positions and grade breakdowns, working in the Department's scope section; if the section is adequately staffed to undertake the work required of it in relation to examining bogus self-employment in large organisations such as RTÉ; how long she expects the RTÉ scope...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (25 Apr 2024)

“28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what threshold needs to be cleared for an appeal to be granted by her Department’s appeals office in respect of challenges to decisions by her Department's scope section against employers in relation to findings on bogus self-employment; if applications for appeal are scrutinised, what percentage of appeal...”

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

“80. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is considering the suspension of log imports from Scotland until better safeguards are in place to prevent the spread of the spruce bark beetle to this country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18348/24]”

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• Has spoken in 63 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 828 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 0 comments on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
• 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.
• 67 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Brendan Griffin speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 327 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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