• Fianna Fail TD for Mayo
• Entered the Dáil on 24 May 2007 — General election
• Email me whenever Dara Calleary speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Staff Data, Departmental Funding, Grant Payments, Covid-19 Pandemic

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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (12 Feb 2026)

“The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. My Department provides the funding for food to schools. All schools who wish to avail of funding are...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (12 Feb 2026)

“The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. The Hot School Meals Programme was first introduced as a pilot programme to 37 schools in 2019....”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (12 Feb 2026)

“The basic Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) provides immediate assistance for those in need who are awaiting the outcome of a claim or an appeal for a primary social welfare payment or do not qualify for payment under other State schemes. SWA Payments are administered by Community Welfare Officers (CWOs) in the Community Welfare Service (CWS) considering the requirements of the...”

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• Has spoken in 60 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — 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 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 64 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Dara Calleary speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1318 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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