• Independent TD for Kerry
• Entered the Dáil on 27 February 2016 — General election
• Email me whenever Danny Healy-Rae speaks (no more than once per day)

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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Driver Test, Passport Services, Health Services, Covid-19 Pandemic, Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

(based on written questions asked by Danny Healy-Rae and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (1 May 2025)

“86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the requirement for photo ID when applying for a public service card, as many people do not have a passport or driver's licence; if an alternative will be offered; if identity confirmation by a garda or solicitor will be made acceptable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20865/25]”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (1 May 2025)

“273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason it is necessary for persons to present themselves at a welfare office to have a photo taken for a public service card; if there are plans to have this available to do online [SUBSTITUTE]; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20866/25]”

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

“People in Kerry are looking forward to the new planning framework and hoping it will deliver from them in a way previous plans have not done. I am talking about people who own land, not farmers' sons or daughters because they are being looked after. There are others who own an acre beside their parents' house, four or five miles outside Killorglin or seven or eight miles east of Killarney,...”

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• Has spoken in 90 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 141 written questions in the last year — 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 13–14 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") 939 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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