• Fine Gael TD for Kildare North
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Asks most questions about

• 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)

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

“I thank all involved for the work they are doing and have done in the course of the past year. I hope that their hard work will pay dividends. Can the witnesses emphatically state that all vaccines currently available, in use and approved throughout the country, are equally safe and effective regardless of where they are manufactured?”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

“Since availability of supply is a major contributor to the speed with which the vaccinations take place, how is the full extent of the requirement in a particular area determined?”

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• Has spoken in 215 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 2015 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.
• 64 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Bernard Durkan speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1806 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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