• Fianna Fail TD for Cork South Central
• Taoiseach, Department of An Taoiseach (since 27 Jun 2020)
• Email me whenever Micheál Martin speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements, Ministerial Meetings, Northern Ireland Issues, Strategic Communications Unit, Brexit Issues

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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

“Deputy McDonald raised the issue of an Irish language Act which we understand will be introduced in Westminster. I do not know if it will be done before the recess but certainly it will be done early in the new year. It is a pity it was not done in the Assembly, as agreed last year. The package of language and identity legislation agreed under New Decade, New Approach was detailed,...”

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

“We need to encourage people to join the police force. I do not think it is happening to the same extent as it did before. I was involved in the devolution of justice at the time, when I was Minister for Foreign Affairs. It was hard negotiated and worked for. The Patten reforms were transformational. We should work to ensure we can build on them. If we keep using language that to me is a...”

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

“There was a fair bit of momentum there for quite some time but then people started resiling from encouraging people to join the PSNI. We need to get the balance right across communities so they are represented in the composition and so on.”

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• Has spoken in 175 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• People have made 4 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.
• 75 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Micheál Martin speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 4641 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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