• Green Party TD for Waterford
• Entered the Dáil on 9 February 2020 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Hospital Staff, Covid-19 Pandemic, Special Educational Needs, Sustainable Development Goals, Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

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Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

“I will pick up where the Deputy left off in echoing his comments about the rights of nature and the establishment of the expert group. We do need that constitutional change to recognise people's right to a healthy environment on one hand and the rights of nature on the other. We know from very recent history that referenda are tricky. In the longer term and particularly as we look at the...”

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

“First, I want to take the opportunity, which other members have not taken as yet, to acknowledge the scale of the challenge that the Department has faced, particularly since 2022. There has been an unprecedented influx of people, which, as Mr. McCarthy said, is probably the largest in the history of the State. I commend the action taken by the Department to accommodate 100,000 people who...”

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

“In terms of specific competencies, Mr. McCarthy's Department was asked to contract accommodation on a scale it would never have been asked to do before. Currently, the Department is trying to reconfigure that accommodation in terms of the temporary protection applicants who are increasingly leaving that accommodation. The Department is trying to consolidate and ensure we are increasing...”

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• Has spoken in 164 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 192 written questions in the last year — 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") 259 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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