• Sinn Fein TD for Clare
• Entered the Dáil on 30 November 2024 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Social Welfare Payments, Further and Higher Education, Apprenticeship Programmes, Departmental Data, An Garda Síochána

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

“I thank the witnesses for coming in. At the beginning of the discussion they talked about patients. I will talk about another patient. His journey started over five years ago. He had pancreatitis at the time. He started to get really yellow and lost a drastic amount of weight. He could not eat. He could not sleep because he was constantly itching. He had been sent to different...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

“That is okay. It is just one of those cases that happens and it is replicated. However, I think the electronic health record will help. One hospital is not talking to another hospital and that is a bit issue. Once again, we are not talking about going out to court but there has to be somebody there to say sorry. That is not happening because nobody is taking responsibility.”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

“I thank the officials for coming in today. On earlier diagnosis, I would like to talk about lobular cancer. It accounts for 10% of breast cancer cases. The problem is that when you have dense breasts, this cancer is very hard to detect. Women are going for mammograms and being told they are all clear. They are then leaving and not realising that they could have cancer within them. They...”

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• Has spoken in 52 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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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 43 times in debates.
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