• Labour TD for Tipperary
• Former Labour Senator (Agricultural Panel)
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Entered the Seanad on 13 September 2007 — General election
• Left the Seanad on 5 June 2009 — Resigned
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Tribunals of Inquiry Establishment, Departmental Communications, Social and Affordable Housing Provision, Ministerial Meetings, National Maternity Strategy

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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

“There is much detail included in the correspondence. As a committee, we requested a number of pieces of information. The correspondence indicates that there are three elements that will be responded to at a later date, but as there may be more, we might liaise with the clerk on the outstanding requests. The first point made in the reply is related to surveillance and is mind-boggling...”

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

“I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General. I have been raising this for weeks and what he has said is crystal clear; it reinforces the answers he gave me last week. The way the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board was constituted under the Health Acts means that circular 12/2010 and the code of conduct for State bodies which was brought up into line in August 2016 would apply to...”

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

“I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General; that is crystal clear. The Comptroller and Auditor General is obviously not in the political sphere so we will not go anywhere near that with him. Repeatedly, including again last night, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and the Taoiseach have said that the representative, the civil servant - I have no opinion or issue with him personally - who sat...”

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• Has spoken in 105 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 290 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 3 comments on this TD's speeches — 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.
• 63 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Alan Kelly speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 443 times in debates — average among TDs.
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