• Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Staff, Departmental Staff Remuneration, Social Welfare Benefits, Schools Building Projects, School Accommodation

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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

“I understand and appreciate where people are coming from regarding requests that predated the establishment of the Farrelly commission of investigation. However, while it is all well and good talking in this way, we need legal advice. To me it is not a question of whether we should receive it; it is a question of our time. I do not believe our time is best spent investigating something...”

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

“I ask the Deputy to forgive my interruption. It is nothing to do with her. I am just talking about process and our time. In my opinion we have spent an awful lot of time on matters that are outside our purview or on the edge of our purview. We have also spent an awful lot of time investigating matters where we do not have expertise and where others who do are investigating those matters....”

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

“I think I referred in my correspondence to the fact that there are occasions when the State has to spend money to uphold the law. It is not necessarily about the cost of the provision of the service. We do not know how much it used to cost the State service provider - An Garda Síochána - to provide this service prior to the award of the contract. More importantly, we know from...”

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• Has spoken in 43 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 92 written questions in the last year — below average among TDs.
• People have made 1 comment on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 17–18 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") 105 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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