• Social Democrats TD for Kildare North
• Changed party from Independent on 14 Jul 2015
• Entered the Dáil on 11 March 2005 — Byelection
• Email me whenever Catherine Murphy speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Special Educational Needs, Departmental Staff Data, Covid-19 Pandemic, Planning Issues

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2021)

“I want to talk about the new national children's hospital, that totem to Fine Gael's legendary fiscal prudence. Between 2017 and 2019, 11 separate reviews and audits of the project were commissioned at a cost of €700,000. An additional report was then sought and PwC carried it out at a cost of €450,000. After 12 reports costing €1.15 million, we have learned that the...”

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2021)

“I do not disagree that the hospital is needed, but I want to quote something else the Tánaiste said. On Newstalk in 2019, he stated: "It's scandalous that the Government - or rather the Government's agents - got the estimate ... so wrong." Nobody is disputing that the hospital is needed. Indeed, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, who is sitting behind the Tánaiste,...”

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (17 Jun 2021)

“226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the progress made to date on establishing a greenway from Leixlip to Maynooth along the royal canal; if he will provide the amount funded and or granted to that section in 2021; and if he will confirm if that section will be designated as an official greenway on the Dublin to Galway national cycle route. [32783/21]”

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• Has spoken in 132 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 1650 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 1 comment on this TD's speeches — 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.
• 52 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Catherine Murphy speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1167 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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