• Fine Gael TD for Clare
• Entered the Dáil on 30 November 2024 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): An Garda Síochána, Departmental Data, Disability Services, Defective Building Materials, Housing Schemes

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (9 Jul 2026)

“8. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to review the valuation ceilings applied to reactors under the bovine TB eradication scheme, to ensure farmers are compensated for the full market value for animals removed as reactors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52213/26]”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (9 Jul 2026)

“The scheme designed to compensate farmers for animals lost to TB is simply not fit for purpose. The market value caps are totally out of step with the real world and farmers are being left thousands of euro out of profit. The Minister has publicly stated that he is monitoring and reviewing these caps. A review without an end date provides farmers with no commitment. When will the review...”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (9 Jul 2026)

“The Minister said that budget 2026 money is tied to reducing disease and I commend him on that. It is having a positive effect. Reactor numbers are down significantly year on year to June and the herd incidence rate is also down. That is welcome. However, this disease reduction policy does absolutely nothing for farmers who have animals who are reactors. The Minister can clearly accept...”

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• Has spoken in 90 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 298 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 15 times in debates — well below average among TDs.
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