• Sinn Fein TD for Dublin Central
• Leader of the Opposition (since 27 Jun 2020)
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Mary Lou McDonald speaks (no more than once per day)

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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Staff, Exchequer Savings, Departmental Agencies, Pension Provisions

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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (14 Jul 2022)

“649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the regulation under the Data Protection Act 2018 to facilitate the transfer of information to Operation Denton has been finalised. [38887/22]”

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2022)

“I very much welcome that. I think we are of one mind across the Dáil that all this is completely unacceptable. As the Taoiseach has described, the families have been through losing a precious child, a loved one, and then experienced the horror of discovering that their organs were disposed of in this manner, alongside, as I said, medical waste. This can never, ever happen again. We...”

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2022)

“Last year, the parents of 18 babies born at Cork University Maternity Hospital were informed that their children's organs were sent to Belgium for incineration, without their knowledge or consent. This happened on two occasions between March and April 2020. The bereaved parents had believed that the organs of their babies, who had been subject to autopsy, would be cremated or buried in a...”

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• Has spoken in 167 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 412 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 1 comment on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 76 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Mary Lou McDonald speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1606 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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