• Fine Gael TD for Kildare North
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Residency Permits, Social Welfare Benefits, Asylum Applications, Citizenship Applications, Schools Building Projects

(based on written questions asked by Bernard Durkan and answered by departments)

Message from Select Committee (11 Jul 2019)

“The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill 2017 and has made amendments thereto.”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (11 Jul 2019)

“10. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which he continues to monitor social or economic deficits in urban and rural areas nationally with a view to identifying the more salient interventions available to his Department in order to maximise the social or economic outcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30441/19]”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (11 Jul 2019)

“889. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which he has identified gaps in the system in which urban or rural communities, older or younger persons have suffered as a result of geographic location or economic exclusion with a view to offering assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31389/19]”

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• Has spoken in 213 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 2606 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 2 comments on this TD's speeches — above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 61 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Bernard Durkan speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1688 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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