• Independent TD for Clare
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Michael McNamara speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Departmental Data, School Transport, International Protection, Passport Services

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Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)

“I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time".”

Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)

“I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to give effect to the State's obligations arising under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, and under customary international humanitarian law; and for that purpose to make it an offence for a...”

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

“I transmitted those questions this morning, having previously transmitted them yesterday morning and I am awaiting a response. I, too, am satisfied that we have lots of rules and legislation and even more legislation all the time. However, I am not happy that they are being applied because they are not. This is an instance in which they were not. When it was raised in the public media...”

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• Has spoken in 110 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 284 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• 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 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 33 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Michael McNamara speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 554 times in debates — average among TDs.
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