• People Before Profit Alliance TD for Dún Laoghaire
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Richard Boyd Barrett speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Forestry Sector, Covid-19 Pandemic, Housing Schemes, Special Educational Needs, Housing Provision

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An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2026: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2026: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Oct 2026)

“I thank Deputy Hearne for bringing forward this Bill, which we are very happy to support. It will be interesting to see because the indications are that the Government is not going to support it. Deputy Ó Broin had similar Bills in the previous Dáil. I had a Bill on the right to housing in 2021 that amazingly passed. I think that was a mistake - the Government forgot to call a...”

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (1 Oct 2026)

“2. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to reports from a recent cross-party delegation of seven Oireachtas Members to the trial of an Irish citizen in Germany, where delegates observed serious procedural issues, and further to her personal assurances that she would be monitoring, keeping a very close eye and providing direct and fair oversight and full sight of the...”

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (1 Oct 2026)

“Daniel Tatlow-Devally has been locked up for 23 hours a day in a German prison for 13 months, having taken part in a protest, in which no human being was hurt, against an arms manufacturer providing weapons to Israel to commit its crimes. His family, myself and a cross-party delegation who went over in July to witness the trial believe he is not getting a fair trial and we have repeatedly...”

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• Has spoken in 251 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 877 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 11 comments on this TD's speeches — well above 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.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 3400 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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