• Fianna Fail TD for Sligo-Leitrim
• Former Fianna Fail Senator (Agricultural Panel)
• Changed party from Fianna Fail on 4 Aug 2009
• Entered the Dáil on 24 May 2007 — General election
• Left the Seanad on 24 May 2007 — Resigned
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Properties, Sports Capital Programme Applications, Hospital Services, GLAS Payments, Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme

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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

“Applying for a medical card today reminds me of applying for planning permission. One applies for planning permission and seven weeks later one gets a request for further information. One sends the information in and then one might get a subsequent request. That is fair enough for planning permission, but for medical cards, people are being notified four or five weeks after they apply by...”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (11 Oct 2018)

“12. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to protect the interests of beef farmers in view of understandable frustration at poor prices and the ongoing systemic flaws in the relationship between farmers and factories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41263/18]”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (11 Oct 2018)

“As the Minister will be aware, most of the farming organisations have pulled out of the beef forum body that was set up a number of years to ensure a fair price for beef. I would like know the steps the Minister will take in the interests of beef farmers in view of the understandable frustration at poor prices and the ongoing systematic flaws in the relationship between farmers and meat...”

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• Has spoken in 73 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 237 written questions in the last year — 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.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 103 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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