• Fianna Fail TD for Cavan-Monaghan
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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Northern Ireland Issues, Northern Ireland, School Staffing, Brexit Issues, Schools Building Projects

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

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (2 Dec 2021)

“57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposals, if any, there are to improve the criteria for the Rebuilding Ireland mortgage scheme, taking into account the difficulties that have arisen for some households with the present criteria (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59680/21]”

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

“During a Question Time last July I referred to the work commissioned from the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, by the shared island unit of the Taoiseach's Department, across all areas of possible co-operation on a North-South and an all-island basis. That comprehensive research project is to be welcomed. In that context, I requested that a specific study be undertaken by the...”

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

“5. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [57728/21]”

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• Has spoken in 66 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 405 written questions in the last year — 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 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 28 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Brendan Smith speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 861 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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