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Niall Collins TD

- Fianna Fail TD for Limerick County
- Entered the Dáil on 24 May 2007 — General election
- Email me whenever Niall Collins speaks (no more than once per day)
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Committees and topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Ministerial Travel, Departmental Staff Data, Brexit Issues, Departmental Reports
(based on written questions asked by Niall Collins and answered by departments)
Most recent appearances in parliament
- Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)
“I thank Deputies Devlin and Matthews for their queries on the subject of apprenticeships, which is a major part of our programme for Government. We are very keen, as a new Department, to destigmatise the apprenticeships area and put these centre stage in our further education and training sphere. We hope to make this a very viable, attractive and rewarding career path and way of finding job...”
- Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)
“Deputy Mattie McGrath correctly queried the range of apprenticeships. I will furnish all Deputies with the full range of approved apprenticeship schemes that are in place and available. We are anxious to create new apprenticeships in a range of new areas, and that will be a central tenet of the apprenticeship action plan, which we referred to a number of times in this session. It will be...”
- Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)
“The Deputy asked about the numbers who took up the various apprenticeships. I do not have that detail to hand at the moment. Suffice it to say that during 2020 there was naturally a drop-off due to Covid-19 and the impact of the pandemic in terms of the number of people who took up apprenticeships and applied for apprenticeships. That was part of the reason we introduced the...”
Numerology
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- Has spoken in 24 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
- Has received answers to 295 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
- People have made 1 comment on this TD's speeches — 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.
- 40 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Niall Collins speaks.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 551 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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Register of Members' Interests
Register last updated: 11 Mar 2015. More about the Register