• Fianna Fail TD for Laois-Offaly
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Barry Cowen speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Hospital Appointments Status, Departmental Expenditure, Medical Card Applications, Departmental Budgets, Social Welfare Appeals

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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Electricity Transmission Network (30 Nov 2021)

“I thank the Minister of State. I do not, nor does anybody else, expect the Minister, Deputy Ryan, to be able to change international gas prices. We have a right to expect, however, a competitive, efficient and well-served wholesale market. I contend that successive failures by the Department, EirGrid and the CRU have resulted in the present situation where we have too little generation...”

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Electricity Transmission Network (30 Nov 2021)

“I note my disappointment that the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is unavailable. I raised a similar issue some weeks ago and the Minister did not show up then either. I am in receipt of an independently commissioned report and analysis of recent details and figures pertaining to the wholesale electricity market in Ireland known as the...”

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Nov 2021)

“618. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment for orthopaedic surgery. [57184/21]”

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• Has spoken in 34 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 97 written questions in the last year — below average among TDs.
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• 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") 633 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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