• Fine Gael TD for Cavan-Monaghan
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Heather Humphreys speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Grant Payments, Medical Card Applications, Carer's Allowance Appeals, Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments, Garda Transport

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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (18 Apr 2024)

“The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The Programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the Programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2024)

“Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme, my Department may make an Additional Needs Payment (ANP) to help meet essential expenditure which an eligible person could not reasonably be expected to meet from their weekly income. ANPs are awarded at the discretion of the Designated Persons administering the scheme considering the requirements of the legislation and all the relevant...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Apr 2024)

“In November 2022 the European Commission made a non-binding recommendation on the recognition of COVID-19 as an occupational disease if ‘caused by work in disease prevention, in health and social care and in domiciliary assistance, or, in a pandemic context, in sectors where there is an outbreak in activities in which a risk of infection has been proven.’ This is a non-binding...”

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• Has spoken in 57 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• People have made 1 comment on this TD's speeches — 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.
• 68 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Heather Humphreys speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1164 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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