• Aontú TD for Meath West
• Changed party from Independent on 28 Jan 2019; from Sinn Fein on 15 Nov 2018
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Departmental Properties, Departmental Data, Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Staff

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

“It is interesting there is such a disparity between the numbers the Minister has quoted, which are correct according to the census, and the number of people who are declaring as farmers. Fewer people are declaring as farmers because they must have another occupation when they cannot make enough money from their farms. In the census, they declare they are not farmers but are something else....”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

“The Minister's answer is, to an extent, an admission that farming, in comparison with other income streams, is falling. He said that because the income in farming is now lower than in much of the rest of the economy, people are getting out of farming. Why is income lower in farming? Why do we have a food sector that is phenomenally profitable but where the profit lands in the factory and...”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

“The Minister supported that legislation when he was in opposition.”

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• Has spoken in 152 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 1038 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 3 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1127 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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