• Fine Gael TD for Meath West
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Staff, Health Services, Departmental Properties, Consultancy Contracts

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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Oct 2021)

“The financial support the Government provided to businesses and workers affected by the pandemic was unprecedented. Supports for business included the weekly CRSS payment for businesses forced to close their doors to the public, the Wage Subsidy Scheme, the Pandemic Unemployment Payment, the Restart Grant Plus and the Small Business Assistance Scheme for COVID (SBASC) both now closed, reduced...”

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

“Building on the Tánaiste's comments, this budget is very much focused on a jobs-led recovery. We have been in this place before, when we had to turn to the business community to work with the State to create jobs for those who have no work and to drive the economy. We want to see a well-functioning economy delivering the resources and money we need to restore the public services to the...”

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (13 Oct 2021)

“The employment permits system is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour shortages, in circumstances where there are no suitably qualified Irish/EEA nationals available to undertake the work and that the shortage is a genuine one. The system is managed through the operation of the Critical Skills and Ineligible Occupations...”

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• Has spoken in 28 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• People have made 0 comments 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.
• 51 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Damien English speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 990 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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