• Labour TD for Dublin Fingal East
• Entered the Dáil on 9 February 2020 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Hospital Staff, Health Services Staff, Housing Provision, Health Services, Schools Building Projects

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National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

“The Bill before us is not complicated. It makes a small, focused change to the way in which the National Training Fund can be spent. We in the Labour Party have long advocated for better use to be made of this fund. For too long we have seen huge surpluses built up with little in the way of ideas, imagination or indeed a mechanism being put forward on how to spend this money. In the years...”

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Oct 2025)

“I echo what Deputy Mac Lochlainn said. At all the Business Committee meetings I have been at, we have seldom had such a direct discussion about needing time as last week - it was on the fisheries issue - and the Chief Whip came down strongly, saying the schedule was full, there was loads of legislation and there was no time for anything. Yet we are engineering a parliamentary schedule that...”

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

“I want to raise the early years sector with the Taoiseach today. Much has been made of the Government's failure to live up to its pre-election promises in this area. I want to focus on a specific area, that is, the community not-for-profit and voluntary sector for early years. In the wider Fingal area there are 291 early years service providers but only 16, or 5%, of them are from the...”

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• Has spoken in 85 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 287 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 367 times in debates — average among TDs.
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