• Green Party TD for Dublin Fingal
• Entered the Dáil on 29 November 2019 — Byelection
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Covid-19 Pandemic Supports, Medicinal Products, Pigmeat Sector, Schools Building Projects

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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Bodies (9 Jul 2024)

“The newly appointed Special Rapporteur on Racial Equality and Racism will monitor progress towards the objectives of the National Action Plan Against Racism (NAPAR). The Special Rapporteur will make an annual report to the Minister; this report will also be submitted to the relevant Oireachtas Committee. To support this work, an Advisory Committee on Racism and Racial Equality, chaired...”

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Bodies (9 Jul 2024)

“The National Action Plan Against Racism (NAPAR), which was developed by an independent Anti-Racism Committee and approved by the Government for publication in March 2023, recommended the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on Racial Equality and Racism to ensure effective monitoring and implementation of the plan. An open competition for the purpose of recommending an individual for...”

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Jul 2024)

“My Department's Community Services Programme (CSP) currently supports over 430 community-based organisations to provide local social, economic and environmental services through a social enterprise model, providing a contribution towards the cost of CSP supported staff in organisations. I am aware that the organisation in question is currently in receipt of CSP supports for one full time...”

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• Has spoken in 50 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 4 written questions in the last year — well below average among TDs.
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• 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") 258 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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