• Former Independent Senator (Nominated by the Taoiseach)
• Entered the Seanad on 20 May 2011 — appointed
• Left the Seanad on 24 April 2016 — General election

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2016)

“I also wish to echo the welcome extended to Professor Kilkelly. It is heartening to see someone with such a focus on children's rights as chair of Oberstown because this also is an opportunity for a new start in respect of policies, procedures and how matters are dealt with. It is an opportunity to draw from best practice and to draw up and perhaps be the leading lights in what is best...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Chairperson Designate (28 Jan 2016)

“Absolutely, and I am very satisfied with the answers. One thing I did not raise was more of a comment on the issue of board fees. Professor Kilkelly said she was not taking board fees. For me, if this was a business or corporate issue there would be board fees and we would all accept that. We need to attract people to the board and if that means we get people who are independent, will...”

Seanad: Direct Provision: Motion (27 Jan 2016)

“I move:That Seanad Éireann:- welcomes the final Report of the ‘Working Group to Report to Government on Improvements to the Protection Process, including Direct Provision and Supports to Asylum Seekers’, published in June 2015; - notes, according to the latest available statistics from the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA), in its Monthly Report September 2015, there...”

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• Has spoken in 78 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among Senators.
• People have made 4 comments on this Senator's speeches — well above average among Senators.
• 25 people are tracking whenever this Senator speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 433 times in debates — average among Senators.
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