• Independent TD for Tipperary South
• Changed party from Fianna Fail on 29 Jun 2010
• Entered the Dáil on 24 May 2007 — General election
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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Funding, Medical Cards, International Protection

(based on written questions asked by Mattie McGrath and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

“124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons a school (details supplied) in south Tipperary that had previously had a new special class sanctioned has had the class withdrawn without any engagement to overcome the issues; if she will urgently review this decision by the NCSE which has left a number of students without an appropriate class place; how this class could have been...”

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (12 Jun 2025)

“358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position regarding a project (details supplied); the likely timeline for this project to proceed to the next stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31627/25]”

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

“359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school transport review; in a case in which a student that attends an all girls primary school and wants to continue her secondary education in an all girls secondary school but there is no all girls school in her closest town will she be granted a bus ticket to travel to her nearest single sex school; and...”

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• Has spoken in 170 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 295 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 3 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 13–14 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 55 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Mattie McGrath speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 2711 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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