• Solidarity TD for Dublin West
• Entered the Dáil on 23 May 2014 — Byelection
• Email me whenever Ruth Coppinger speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Staff Data, Departmental Staff Remuneration, Foreign Conflicts, Animal Welfare, Departmental Expenditure

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

“I welcome our witnesses. We had representatives from the Department at a previous meeting and the NCCA as well. I made the point that, as a parent and having been a teacher of leaving certificate students, I have had insight from both sides of this, in that I have seen the stress on students and also how teachers are being made to deal with the demands of the leaving certificate as well. I...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

“Okay. We know ASTI members did not vote to accept these reforms as they are proposed. That was despite not having any recommendation by the leadership, so this came very much from a groundswell of teachers. I think that would be fair to say by anyone's metric. What sort of conditions of work are now being tied in with acceptance of this for the ASTI membership?”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

“That led to the Department having to pause this for-----”

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• Has spoken in 139 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 291 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 2 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 14–15 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 24 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Ruth Coppinger speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 635 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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