• Sinn Fein TD for Donegal
• Former Sinn Fein Senator (Agricultural Panel)
• Entered the Dáil on 26 November 2010 — Byelection
• Entered the Seanad on 13 September 2007 — General election
• Left the Seanad on 26 November 2010 — Resigned
• Email me whenever Pearse Doherty speaks (no more than once per day)

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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Tax Code, Tax Yield, Hospital Appointments Status, Tax Data, Passport Services

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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

“Last week, mothers from Donegal travelled up here to sleep outside the gates of Leinster House. They did so in desperation because their children, ten with additional and special needs, do not have a school place for September. There is only one school in the county that they can go to, and that is Little Angels. It is now more than six weeks since I raised this on the floor of the...”

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

“This needs to be sorted because a school in the hands of the State could be lying empty.”

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

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• Has spoken in 131 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 655 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 5 comments on this TD's speeches — well above 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.
• 111 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Pearse Doherty speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1941 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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