• Sinn Fein TD for Waterford
• Former Sinn Fein Senator (Labour Panel)
• Entered the Dáil on 27 February 2016 — General election
• Entered the Seanad on 27 April 2011 — General election
• Left the Seanad on 26 February 2016 — Resigned
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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Hospital Services, Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Staff Data, Public Sector Pay, Public Sector Staff Remuneration

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Environmental Impact of Quarries and Incinerators: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2019)

“I wish to share the timeslot with my three colleagues, Deputies Quinliven, Ellis and Mitchell. I will take five minutes and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle might let me know when my five minutes are up. I move amendment No. 1: To insert the following after “basis that the levels of such will be progressively reduced”: “— end ‘side-by-side’ waste...”

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Functions (4 Dec 2019)

“I wish to speak to question No. 9. The Department of the Taoiseach is obliged to have a statement of strategy. My understanding is that the statement of strategy for the Department will reach its end date this month. We do not know how long this fractured Government has left as we move into 2020. It might be a month, two months or three months. We know that in the by-elections, to use a...”

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Functions (4 Dec 2019)

“The Taoiseach has 30 seconds to get the bingo answer in.”

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• Has spoken in 141 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has spoken in 108 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among Senators.
• Has received answers to 330 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 6 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 0 comments on this Senator's speeches — average among Senators.
• 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.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 269 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1048 times in debates — well above average among Senators.
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