• Fianna Fail TD for Cavan-Monaghan
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Issues, School Staffing, Brexit Issues, Schools Building Projects

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waterways Ireland (7 Dec 2023)

“13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that will be implemented at an early date to progress the proposal to extend the Shannon navigation from Lough Allen, County Leitrim, to Dowra, County Cavan, in view of the substantial preparatory work carried out on the project some years ago and the benefits of such a development for the upper Shannon region;...”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waterways Ireland (7 Dec 2023)

“As the Minister of State knows, the River Shannon rises at the Shannon Pot in the Cuilcagh Mountains in County Cavan. It is a massive national and natural resource for our country. A huge part of that waterway is now navigable, making it a massive tourist and recreational amenity for our own people and visitors to our country. As the Minister of State will know from the files in the...”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waterways Ireland (7 Dec 2023)

“I thank the Minister of State sincerely for his positive response and welcome that this project is being actively looked at again. I hope the environmental impact statement and other associated preparatory studies will be successful. Our local councillor in that area, Councillor John Paul Feeley, and I worked extremely hard to get investment at the Shannon Pot. Fortunately, through the...”

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• Has spoken in 82 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 343 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") 957 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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