• Sinn Fein TD for Dublin Central
• 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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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Exchequer Savings, Departmental Agencies, Departmental Staff, Pension Provisions

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Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

“I too commend every Teachta Dála elected here, particularly the new Deputies and their families. I thank Deputies Doherty and Kerrane for proposing and seconding me for the position of Taoiseach. In line with the theme of change it is only appropriate to note that today for the first time a nominee from a party other than Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael has managed to garner the greatest...”

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

“We are all agreed that the motif and theme emerging from this election is change, but I hear a note from some Members who might seek to suggest that this is some kind of capricious nonsense on the part of the electorate, that perhaps people were not really sure what they meant by change, that it was some kind of fuzzy ill-defined feeling. Nothing could be further from the truth. I was...”

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• Has spoken in 140 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 184 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 1 comment on this TD's speeches — above 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.
• 69 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") 1216 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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