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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Schools Building Projects Status, Hospitals Capital Programme, Hospital Services, School Accommodation Provision, Defective Building Materials

(based on written questions asked by Pat Gallagher and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (25 Nov 2025)

“732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether Ireland intends to apply for port listing for our pelagic sector under the newly agreed EU Commission; if, in light of comments made by the executive chairperson of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority at an Oireachtas committee meeting on 18 November 2025, there has been a failure on the part of his Department to take...”

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (25 Nov 2025)

“736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he would consider directly contacting all EU member states’ ambassadors, including all non-coastal states, to convey to them the crises within the Irish fishing and processing sectors; if he would further outline the damage that third country coastal states are doing by fishing above their agreed shares; if he would...”

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 37 – Social Protection (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

“I thank the Minister and his team for the presentation and for giving us an outline. I compliment all of his staff in the offices that deal with TDs. If those facilities were not available, it would cost his Department a fortune. I recall the days when the only opportunity we had to ask questions was by way of parliamentary questions. We know the cost of all those. Apart from the fact...”

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• Has spoken in 32 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 62 written questions in the last year — below average among TDs.
• People have made 0 comments on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 14–15 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 689 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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