• Independent TD for Dublin Central
• Entered the Dáil on 5 June 2009 — Byelection
• Email me whenever Maureen O'Sullivan speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Animal Welfare, Human Rights Issues, Prisoner Data, Dormant Accounts Fund, National Monuments

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Centenary of 1918 General Election: Statements (13 Dec 2018)

“I want to begin with a quotation from Wolfe Tone from 1791, when he declared the national demand was, "To break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils". It is rather ironic in light of Brexit. Breaking that connection meant different things to different people: repeal of the Union, some form of home rule or a republic. Of course, after 1916, there...”

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

“Ireland's development aid programme has a considerable reputation. That programme does invaluable work because it makes a difference, it is poverty focused, it is about community empowerment, it is directed at the most marginalised and it has been untied. With the new White Paper coming, how committed is the Government to policy coherence, particularly when we are seeing examples of policy...”

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

“I acknowledge the consultation process that took place. Surely the strategy for development aid should be to get to a point where it is no longer needed. For aid to have a sell-by date, the developing world needs to have the capacity to lift itself out of poverty. That means that as well as giving the aid, we should also support them in their capacity to collect taxes from the...”

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• Has spoken in 105 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 299 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 6 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• 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.
• 74 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Maureen O'Sullivan speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 655 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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