• Green Party TD for Dublin Fingal
• Entered the Dáil on 29 November 2019 — Byelection
• Email me whenever Joe O'Brien speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Covid-19 Pandemic Supports, Pigmeat Sector, Prisoner Data, Special Educational Needs

(based on written questions asked by Joe O'Brien and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (1 Apr 2021)

“7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that will be put in place to ensure workers on lay off will be able to access statutory redundancy payments swiftly in the event that their employment is no longer available after the current Covid-19 restrictions on redundancy are lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17841/21]”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (1 Apr 2021)

“The Community Employment Scheme (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. The programme is delivered through independent CE sponsoring authorities that operate in the community and voluntary sector....”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (1 Apr 2021)

“The Community Employment Scheme (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. The programme is delivered through independent CE sponsoring authorities that operate in the community and voluntary sector....”

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• Has spoken in 25 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 193 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
• People have made 0 comments on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 30 times in debates — well below average among TDs.
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