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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Schools Building Projects, Special Educational Needs, Garda Deployment, School Enrolments, Health Services

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Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

“I welcome the Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill, which, as the Minister said, represents a major upgrade of existing legislation. I welcome the fact it will reduce from seven years to two the time between a judicial determination of an asset being the proceeds of crime and a final disposal order being available. I especially welcome the immediate and automatic appointment of a...”

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

“I agree on this point. With Brexit especially, it does not make sense to have any input from a UK organisation and RAAP has historically done that. As it said in its contributions to this committee, it has never had complaints about the way it collects on behalf of artists. We should leave it in the hands of professionals so to speak. I also agree putting it through the courts system...”

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Protection (17 Jul 2025)

“326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the emergency supports available for schools adjacent to IPAS and Ukrainian refugees that accommodate high percentages of such children and may also separately feature highly Pobal HP deprivation Index data given the often transient and interrupted nature of such children's educational experiences, not their traumatic life experiences; and if...”

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• Has spoken in 114 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 165 written questions in the last year — 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 16–17 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") 261 times in debates — average among TDs.
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