• Labour Senator (Industrial and Commercial Panel)
• Entered the Seanad on 30 January 2025 — General election
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Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Dec 2025)

“I welcome the Minister of State. I agree with Senator Boyhan’s remarks that we need to give this Bill due process and ensure that stakeholders, some of whom are in the Gallery today, are engaged with. I welcome the representatives from Mental Health Reform. Other stakeholders, like the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC, should be engaged with. It is a matter of...”

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Dec 2025)

“I agree with the comments of Senators Cosgrove and Ruane. It is really important that we have broader definitions of "chemical restraint" and "pharmacological restraint" than the ones offered by the Government. Mental Health Reform agrees with this proposal. It is important that any definition of "chemical restraint" include the inappropriate use or overuse of PRN sedatives. In its 2020...”

Seanad: Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (2 Dec 2025)

“The Labour Party was clear then and we are clear now that budget 2026 did little or nothing for citizens struggling to make ends meet, or communities across Ireland. After last year's pre-election giveaways, this was a budget that made it clear to ordinary families that this is a Government that has no vision when it comes to addressing the cost-of-living crisis and there is no light at the...”

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