• 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, Health Services, Housing Schemes

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2025)

“My main concern is that there will only be a trickle of applications for the training and a then a flood at the last minute. We can be smart and avoid that last-minute surge by putting in place a planned, targeted information campaign for next year, possibly using the childcare committees. This would ensure that any misinformation about the process is countered and that anyone who might be...”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2025)

“7. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is satisfied that the number of childminding services registered with Tusla, and the numbers of childminders undertaking the pre-registration training, will be sufficient to meet the future demand in Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73088/25]”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2025)

“Roughly 22,000 children will need childcare in County Clare by 2027. Only five services have registered and only 26 individual childminders have done the mandatory pre-registration training so far. With less than two years before these new regulations take effect, what is being done to ensure the number of childminders will be sufficient to meet the future demand in Clare by 2027?”

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• Has spoken in 53 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 328 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 8 times in debates — well below average among TDs.
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