• Fianna Fail TD for Wexford
• Entered the Dáil on 27 February 2016 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Mental Health Services Data, Mental Health Services Provision, Mental Health Services Staff, Mental Health Services, Mental Health Services Funding

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Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Referral to Joint Committee (3 Dec 2025)

“I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025, a copy of which has been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 27th November, 2025, be referred to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in accordance with Standing Order...”

Planning and Development Act 2024 (Modifications) Regulations 2025: Motion (3 Dec 2025)

“The technical regulations before us do a very simple thing.”

Planning and Development Act 2024 (Modifications) Regulations 2025: Motion (3 Dec 2025)

“While the regulations before the House are very technical, what we effectively did was allow local authorities to commence variations under the existing 2000 Act as that is what they are familiar with, rather than commence the rest of Part 3 of the 2024 Act. As they have in some cases commenced certain variations, we need to have a transitional measure put in so that those variations that...”

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• Has spoken in 47 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 634 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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