• Fine Gael Senator (Administrative Panel)
• Entered the Seanad on 27 April 2011 — General election
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Seanad: Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2025: Second Stage (4 Dec 2025)

“The Minister of State is welcome to the House. I am here to support Senator Rabbitte on this interesting and important legislation. It is bizarre that this has not been addressed since 1934. It just shows how outdated it is, that it has not been a priority of any Government and that it suits the ESB that it remains this way. However, it certainly does not suit the residents whose lives,...”

Seanad: Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2025: Second Stage (4 Dec 2025)

“I might have been in some other capacity. Perhaps the Minister of State was. However, I was certainly there when then Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, came, as were the Leas-Chathaoirleach and others, when the big review of the estuary was launched. We had the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and several Ministers at the time. As a side-script to something I will perhaps raise next week, perhaps we...”

Seanad: Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2025: Second Stage (4 Dec 2025)

“That is a reasonable period for the Government to formulate its position on this. When it is doing so - the Minister of State will agree with me about this - it needs to think about the people who have been affected, including the businesses, farmers, homeowners, elderly people who are frightened and the people who are up at night wondering whether they will be flooded. At the end of the...”

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• Has spoken in 32 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among Senators.
• People have made 3 comments on this Senator's speeches — well above average among Senators.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1076 times in debates — well above average among Senators.
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