• Former Fine Gael Senator (Agricultural Panel)
• Left the Seanad on 29 January 2025 — General election

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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2024)

“The new Electoral Commission was set up to look after both the Dáil and Seanad elections, constituencies and the electoral register. I call for a debate on how the electoral register is commissioned and maintained and what changes the new Electoral Commission has made or is making. I ask because I have not seen any great changes to the electoral register. Some people are not on it...”

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

“I wish to raise an issue relating to tracker mortgages. We had a big debacle in recent years with regard to tracker mortgages and how unfairly people on tracker mortgages were treated by the banks. In all, more than 40,000 people were badly treated by banks over a number of years in the context of tracker mortgages. Some time ago, a number of borrowers brought a case against Ulster Bank....”

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

“It seems that the Planning Regulator has a huge role in these plans. When one takes the regional assemblies into account and the plans they bring forward in the making of their own regional and economic strategies, it seems to me from my reading of this Bill, which is quite complex and complicated, that the Planning Regulator feeds into the regional assembly and that is what then feeds down...”

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• Has spoken in 32 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among Senators.
• People have made 3 comments on this Senator's speeches — well above average among Senators.
• 19 people are tracking whenever this Senator speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1392 times in debates — well above average among Senators.
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