• Sinn Fein TD for Dublin West
• Entered the Dáil on 9 February 2020 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): An Garda Síochána, Hospital Staff, Health Services Staff, Official Engagements, Covid-19 Pandemic

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Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

“The fact of the matter is that normal working families are being affected by a cost-of-living crisis. This Government has lost control of it. Week on week, families see their shopping bills rise and rise, and the Government is burying its head in the sand, ignoring people's hardships and refusing to bring forward a cost-of-living package. Even the conscious shopper using the so-called...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

“I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I live about 700 yd or 800 yd away from the drone base in Millennium Park. I walk the park every day, so I see the drones every single day. There are currently six drones - they added one in the past couple of weeks - and because I am not part of the flight path, it does not directly come over our house unless it is delivering next door to us...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

“It is the responsibility of Government, not private business, to legislate and the failure of Governments over the past couple of years to legislate on this is the reason we are all sitting here. We are not here talking about defibrillators and medicine but the commercial end of drone delivery and its impact on residents. Should Manna not hold off scaling up until legislation with proper...”

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• Has spoken in 62 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 405 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
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• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 15–16 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") 257 times in debates — average among TDs.
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