• Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central
• Minister, Department of Agriculture, the Marine and Food (since 9 Mar 2011)
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Alternative Energy Projects, Schools Building Projects, Telecommunications Services, Energy Resources

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Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

“I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“at the start of a centenary of commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Lock-out, recognises the landmark struggle for workers' rights as a significant milestone in a decade that saw enormous convulsion in the emergence of an independent nation; recognises...”

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

“Members of the Labour Party will speak.”

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

“The centenaries of several momentous events will take place during the coming decade. The Dublin Lock-out began on 26 August 1913 when all the trams on O'Connell Street stopped as workers sought pay rises ranging from one to two shillings a week. In response, the Dublin Tramway Company locked out members of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union who refused to sign a pledge to leave...”

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• Has spoken in 56 debates in the last year — 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.
• 43 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Simon Coveney speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 707 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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