• Fine Gael TD for Louth
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Health Services, Departmental Funding, Departmental Transport, Departmental Staff

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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

“I welcome the comments of the Governor with regard to placing consumers at the heart of the Central Bank's policy and giving them top priority. The public does not feel this has been the case in the past. It is hugely important. We will judge the Governor on his actions rather than his words but I am impressed with the commitments he has given so far. The problem is that Covid...”

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (Resumed) (7 Jul 2020)

“I worked in a post-primary school that had 1,200 students. I can appreciate the difficulty caused by Covid-19 and how it will be possible to organise things. One of the key points will arise when students are out of class. How will that situation be monitored and that activity supervised? Sometimes one needs to have eyes in the back of one's head to see everything that goes on in a...”

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (Resumed) (7 Jul 2020)

“I refer to staggered school hours where one might start at 8.30 a.m. or 9 a.m. but would continue with that so that some students might not come in until 11 a.m. or 12 noon. They would have a longer day and go home at a different time. It is a major challenge. Has Mr. Mongey thought about that? I presume the principal signs off on the plan but that every plan would have to be verified...”

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• Has spoken in 31 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 239 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 11 comments on this TD's speeches — well above 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.
• 57 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Fergus O'Dowd speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 827 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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