• 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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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Ministerial Travel, Health Services, Departmental Staff Data, Brexit Issues

(based on written questions asked by Niall Collins and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (17 Apr 2024)

“126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can help a playschool (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16971/24]”

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

“Amendment No. 913 seeks to remove the words "20 per cent" to "not less than 50" in section 224. As previously stated, any amendment to Part V policy risks delaying housing delivery as the sector comes to terms with its implications. With the Planning and Development Bill 1999, President McAleese referred Part V of the Bill to the Supreme Court for consideration of its compatibility with the...”

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

“It was the President who referred it previously.”

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• Has spoken in 29 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 180 written questions in the last year — 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 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 41 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Niall Collins speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 653 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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