• Fine Gael TD for Tipperary South
• Entered the Dáil on 30 November 2024 — General election
• Email me whenever Michael Murphy speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Special Educational Needs, Health Services Staff, Rail Network, International Protection, Departmental Schemes

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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Coroners Service (4 Dec 2025)

“76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the urgent discussions referenced in his written reply of 22 October 2025 regarding the planned discontinuation of coronial post mortems at University Hospital Waterford from 1 January 2026; the interim arrangements that have now been agreed for counties Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny, Tipperary...”

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Coroners Service (4 Dec 2025)

“We are little more than 40 days from a cliff edge that the Minister has just described as a "critical juncture". From 1 January post mortems will no longer be carried out at UHW, a service that carries out 700 cases every year, which are often the most tragic and traumatic of deaths. Behind every one of these cases is a family in shock waiting for answers and waiting simply to lay a loved...”

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Coroners Service (4 Dec 2025)

“This is not an abstract policy issue; this is a human one. There are 700 cases every year. Every day that a family waits for a post mortem is a day they cannot hold a funeral, cannot begin the grieving process and cannot find closure. That is the reality that awaits hundreds of families across the south east if this service collapses on 1 January. Coroners, funeral directors and...”

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• Has spoken in 55 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 162 written questions in the last year — below average among TDs.
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