• Green Party TD for Dublin South Central
• Entered the Dáil on 9 February 2020 — General election
• Email me whenever Patrick Costello speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Children in Care, Departmental Funding, Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment, Planning Issues, Child and Family Agency

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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (21 Oct 2020)

“228. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a resource centre (details supplied) has not received an increase in funding since 2010; and if he will provide pay restoration to 2020 levels for this group [31823/20]”

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Treatment Services (21 Oct 2020)

“235. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available to support the delivery of community action on alcohol from the additional funding announced within Budget 2020 with specific reference to funding for the Alcohol Subgroup of the Canal Communities Regional Drug and the Alcohol Task Force. [31881/20]”

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

“The Minister of State will probably remember that in the pre-European Council statements I mentioned the Palestinian village of Khirbet a-Rakeez, where a school funded by the European Union and Irish Aid has been demolished. At the time, I urged the Minister of State to engage with his European colleagues to seek compensation for the demolition by the Israeli military of aid structures...”

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• Has spoken in 25 committee discussions and Dáil debates since entering the Oireachtas. No comparison to other members is shown here because this member has been in office for less than a year.
• Has received answers to 128 written questions since entering the Oireachtas. No comparison to other members is shown here because this member has been in office for less than a year.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 12 times in debates.
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