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Dara Calleary TD

- 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)
Voting record
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Committees and topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- 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)
Most recent appearances in parliament
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (1 May 2025)
“I agree with the Deputy entirely. We want this scheme to work. We will do the final roll-out in September so that every primary school pupil in the country will have had the opportunity to have hot school meals within their school. At that time I intend to stand back and examine at the scheme to see where it has been working and where it has not. I will be very focused on DEIS secondary...”
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (1 May 2025)
“I totally agree with the Deputy that a five-year-old should not receive the same portion as a 13-year-old and we get that feedback a lot. I suspect there are Members who have seen food come home with schoolbags and probably found it a few days later. Every school has the flexibility, within procurement rules, to choose the provider of the food. There is not some massive corporate...”
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (1 May 2025)
“The review will absolutely capture all of that. It is very important. There are a lot of local companies involved in this that otherwise would not be providing quality employment and service without this programme.”
Numerology
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- Has spoken in 40 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among TDs.
- Has received answers to 3 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.
- 63 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Dara Calleary speaks.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1127 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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Register of Members' Interests
Register last updated: 11 Mar 2015. More about the Register