• Solidarity TD for Dublin South West
• Entered the Dáil on 11 October 2014 — Byelection
• Email me whenever Paul Murphy speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Greyhound Industry, Animal Welfare, Health Services, Gender Recognition

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

“I thank all our guests for coming here and for all their work. It is shameful that this is an annual part of the political and media calendar, in that from the perspectives of our guests and the people who work in the unions, this is just a thing that they know. Not only do our guests have to advocate on the issue, but they must go out and appeal for anyone to put forward beds. This issue...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

“Student unions have received no assurances. Student accommodation in the likes of UCD or wherever may be excluded and not have rent resets every year, but a student renting a flat in Rathmines is going to be hit with regular increases if he or she changes accommodation every year. Is that Mr. O'Mahony's understanding?”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

“I have a question relating to UCD's student union. I was struck by the charging for utilities. There are certain limits regarding what the university can do with rent, so instead it is charging for utilities. Why do the witnesses think it is doing this? Is this a way of circumventing the freeze on rents while also making up for a lack of necessary funding for the university?”

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• Has spoken in 175 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 847 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
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• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 16–17 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") 1305 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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