• Fianna Fail TD for Mayo
• Entered the Dáil on 24 May 2007 — General election
• Email me whenever Dara Calleary speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Staff Data, Departmental Funding, Grant Payments, Covid-19 Pandemic

(based on written questions asked by Dara Calleary and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Bodies (15 May 2025)

“The State bodies operating under the aegis of my Department are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Authority, the Pensions Council and the Social Welfare Tribunal. All of these bodies are legal entities established by statute and enacted prior to 2015. Therefore, no establishment costs to the State have occurred in the past ten years regarding these bodies.”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (15 May 2025)

“The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 May 2025)

“Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work support which provides an income support for employees on low earnings with children. To qualify for Working Family Payment, the customer must be working a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight in ongoing insurable employment and have at least one qualified child who normally resides with them. The information requested regarding Working Family...”

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• Has spoken in 38 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 2 written questions in the last year — well 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.
• 64 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Dara Calleary speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1147 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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