• Former Fine Gael TD for Cavan-Monaghan
• Left the Dáil on 29 November 2024 — General election
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election

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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (22 Jan 2025)

“The Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as quickly as possible. Processing times vary across schemes, depending on the differing eligibility criteria. Schemes that require a high level of documentary evidence from the customer, particularly in the case...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (22 Jan 2025)

“I propose to take Questions Nos. 839, 840 and 841 together. I can assure the Deputy that where any request received in my Department via the National Shared Services Office (NSSO) from a staff member requesting to return from career break, contact is made with the candidate and an offer is made within the 12-month period after expiry of the career break, in all cases. No officer has been...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Jan 2025)

“Disability Allowance (DA) is a means-tested payment for people with a specified disability whose income falls below certain limits and who are aged between 16 and are under 66. The Department periodically reviews claims in payment to ensure that there is continued entitlement to that payment. In this case the means of the person concerned were reviewed in line with DA eligibility. All...”

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• Has spoken in 71 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• 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 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 68 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1271 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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