• Labour TD for Dublin West
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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Tax Code, Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Staff, Decentralisation Programme, Pupil-Teacher Ratio

(based on written questions asked by Joan Burton and answered by departments)

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (20 Jun 2019)

“I am trying to open a conversation with the Minister of State so that we might discuss examples. For instance, the Government is ordering six vehicles which will take some account of carbon but there is no other concrete example, although those six vehicles may be followed by 600 others in the next couple of years. When the Minister of State goes to the self-service restaurant in...”

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (20 Jun 2019)

“It is threatened with closure. It is in Hartstown in my constituency. Its ceiling lights are deemed by everybody to be the most polluting kind of public lighting.”

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (20 Jun 2019)

“Will the Minister of State please give concrete examples of what the Government proposes?”

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• Has spoken in 183 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 631 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 9 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.
• 113 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Joan Burton speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 2440 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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