• Fianna Fail TD for Laois-Offaly
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Barry Cowen speaks (no more than once per day)

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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Hospital Appointments Status, Departmental Expenditure, Medical Card Applications, Departmental Budgets, Social Welfare Appeals

(based on written questions asked by Barry Cowen and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Apr 2024)

“311. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment with a neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. [17255/24]”

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (16 Apr 2024)

“637. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a case (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment with the orthopaedic department, Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [16016/24]”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)

“13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the progress being made by the Land Development Agency in providing affordable and social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15665/24]”

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• Has spoken in 47 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 98 written questions in the last year — below 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.
• 41 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Barry Cowen speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 662 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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