• Fine Gael TD for Limerick City
• Former Fine Gael Senator (Cultural and Educational Panel)
• Entered the Dáil on 24 May 2007 — General election
• Entered the Seanad on 25 April 2016 — General election
• Left the Seanad on 31 March 2020 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Decentralisation Programme, Ministerial Staff, Social Welfare Benefits, Vaccination Programme, Departmental Expenditure

(based on written questions asked by Kieran O'Donnell and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 May 2022)

“148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who still remain on the pandemic unemployment payment; the measures that her Department has implemented that have been the most impactful to ensure those who were on the payment found new employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24650/22]”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

“Thank you, Chairman, for allowing me to contribute. Has the Department or the HSE signed any confidentiality clause with St. Vincent's in terms of what can be released in respect of the contract? That is the first question, because there is a myth.”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

“Okay, that is good. Second, to get to the nuts and bolts, if I go to the Property Registration Authority after the hospital is built, who will I see has title to the land?”

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• Has spoken in 105 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among TDs.
• Has spoken in 42 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among Senators.
• Has received answers to 111 written questions in the last year — below average among TDs.
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• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 14–15 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") 399 times in debates — average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 165 times in debates — below average among Senators.
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