• Independent TD for Tipperary North
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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Forestry Sector, Grant Payments, Health Services, School Transport, Special Educational Needs

(based on written questions asked by Michael Lowry and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (8 May 2025)

“249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will urgently address the critical funding shortfall in the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme to ensure that pensioners, who have not received an increase in 15 years, receive the financial support they deserve; if he will provide the necessary funding through his Department to rectify this situation, or alternatively, incorporate...”

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 May 2025)

“283. To ask the Minister for Finance given the ongoing concerns about discrimination in inheritance tax policy, particularly affecting single and childless citizens, the reason these individuals are subject to less favourable tax-free thresholds compared to other groups; if he will commit to a complete reform of the inheritance tax system, rather than merely tweaking the Group A, B, and C...”

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (7 May 2025)

“The Minister mentioned TikTok. Recently, the data protection commissioner fined it €530 million for the improper personal data transfer from Ireland and the EU to China. The most common question people are asking since this news broke is why such data would be sent to China. Is it that we do not have the capacity to store it here ourselves? Why was the transfer deemed inappropriate...”

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• Has spoken in 19 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 253 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 0 comments on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
• 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.
• 43 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Michael Lowry speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 234 times in debates — average among TDs.
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