• Fianna Fail Senator (Labour Panel)
• Entered the Seanad on 13 September 2007 — General election
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Seanad: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

“I thank Senator. She spoke for exactly eight minutes.”

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

“I could say much more, but I will just use the four minutes available to me. I thank our party Seanad Leader, Senator Ardagh, for generously sharing her time with us. There is an old Irish proverb, "is binn béal ina thost"; sometimes one can say too much. This topic has been debated ad infinitumover decades and in more recent time in the Oireachtas committee, of which I was glad to be...”

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)

“That is an improvement on seagulls. I have no wish to lock horns with Senator Mullen, especially as we will have adequate opportunity to do that in coming days. I cannot, however, let his comment go unanswered. Senator Mullen posits an opinion that anyone who voted "Yes" in the recent referendum has no business or entitlement to stand outside a Catholic church to take up a collection....”

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• Has spoken in 48 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among Senators.
• People have made 8 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") 278 times in debates — above average among Senators.
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