• Fianna Fail TD for Sligo-Leitrim
• Former Fianna Fail Senator (Industrial and Commercial Panel)
• Entered the Dáil on 27 February 2016 — General election
• Left the Seanad on 26 February 2016 — Resigned
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Staff Redeployment, Medicinal Products Reimbursement, IBRC Liquidation, NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures, Garda Stations

(based on written questions asked by Marc MacSharry and answered by departments)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Transport Authority Staff (21 Nov 2019)

“11. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the NTA offers significantly higher salaries on average to external agency staff than it does to permanent members of staff; his views on whether this is appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48146/19]”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Transport Authority Staff (21 Nov 2019)

“I have forfeited my 30 seconds to save time. The Minister should go ahead.”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Transport Authority Staff (21 Nov 2019)

“The NTA has 114 staff who are being paid an average of €73,000. By the Minister's own admission, a further 148 staff are being paid €140,000, or twice as much. This is the organisation we charge with looking after major public transport schemes and we are throwing good money after bad. Earlier we discussed the commute misery out to Fingal. The Minister actually said that...”

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• Has spoken in 60 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has spoken in 33 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among Senators.
• Has received answers to 226 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
• People have made 7 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 1 comment on this Senator's speeches — average among Senators.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 30 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Marc MacSharry speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 105 times in debates — well below average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 743 times in debates — above average among Senators.
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