• Labour TD for Wexford
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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Staff Data, Visa Applications, Brexit Data, Citizenship Applications, Social Welfare Benefits

(based on written questions asked by Brendan Howlin and answered by departments)

Covid-19 (Foreign Affairs and Trade): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

“There is a view that the Johnson ideology is such that he wants to fold the crisis of a hard Brexit into the crisis of coronavirus and fudge the difference, but that is a different matter. My final, brief question relates to quarantine. As the Minister explained, we are going to have a quarantine of 14 days for people coming into the country.”

Covid-19 (Foreign Affairs and Trade): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

“Many European countries are now talking about links, land bridges or air bridges. I heard the Portuguese foreign minister talk about that in relation to Britain today. Are we negotiating, either within the EU or outside it, for land bridges between bilateral countries where there is very limited Covid infection? Will that help to give some sort of allowance of internal or external movement?”

Covid-19 (Foreign Affairs and Trade): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

“Look at the terms they have already agreed.”

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• Has spoken in 148 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 171 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 3 comments on this TD's speeches — well 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.
• 55 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Brendan Howlin speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 2140 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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