• Independent TD for Waterford
• Entered the Dáil on 9 February 2020 — General election
• Email me whenever Matt Shanahan speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Hospital Services, Covid-19 Pandemic, Hospital Facilities, Institutes of Technology, Capital Expenditure Programme

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Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

“We all know how important a subject this is across our communities and especially for business owners. The Alliance for Insurance Reform was before the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment recently. We discussed many of the problems of which the Minister of State is well aware and has covered recently. When will the duty of care legislation be published? When will it be...”

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

“The Taoiseach said I reduced it to politics; I actually did not. He did when he stood in the grounds of University Hospital Waterford with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and made a commitment to deliver 24-7 cardiac care to the south east. In recent weeks, I presented to the Dáil data from a three-year National Office of Clinical Audit report along with three years of patient...”

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

“Will it deliver 24-7?”

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• Has spoken in 99 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 209 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
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• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 17–18 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") 149 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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