• Fine Gael TD for Laois
• Entered the Dáil on 30 November 2024 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Disability Services, Health Services, Departmental Schemes, Departmental Funding, Mental Health Services

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Men's Health: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

“I welcome the opportunity to speak on the important topic of men's health, an issue that touches every parish, home and family in Ireland. Today's debate is a milestone for the House. It is the first time that men's health is the sole focus of statements in Dáil Éireann. Often, men's health is discussed when it is too late, such as when a neighbour is ill, a farmer collapses or a...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

“I welcome everybody here today. It is important that we have people like them here because we always have to hear both sides of the story. I spend most of my time now going to public meetings where there are proposals to put in large windmills, triple the size of what people were ever used to. The witnesses are correct and right when they say most of the windmills, because the size of...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

“Yes, it would lose money. I have to say, in Ireland, we need a lot more discussion about this. If the witnesses do not mind me saying so, when I was being reared as a little fella, we tried to produce enough food for the cattle for the whole winter and there was always be a time coming into the spring when you could feel the tension in the house if the weather was bad and we wondered...”

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• Has spoken in 49 committee discussions and Dáil debates since entering the Oireachtas. No comparison to other members is shown here because this member has been in office for less than a year.
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