• 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): Covid-19 Pandemic, Forestry Sector, Tax Code, Tax Data, Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (3 Jul 2025)

“323. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to intervene in a case where there are major safeguarding concerns in a disability services centre (details supplied). [36680/25]”

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Labelling (2 Jul 2025)

“228. To ask the Minister for Health the reason she continues to deflect responsibility for bilingual food and drink labelling to the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht which has publicly confirmed it has no role in this area rather than using her own Department’s legislative authority over the Food Information to consumers regulation to act; if she accepts...”

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Labelling (2 Jul 2025)

“229. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which she can justify excluding any consideration of the Irish language from the Inter-Departmental Group on the EU Food Information to Consumers Regulation, despite her Department having full legislative responsibility for food labelling in Ireland; if she accepts that refusing to even allow discussion of Ireland’s constitutional and...”

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• Has spoken in 123 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 557 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.
• 73 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Richard Boyd Barrett speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 3225 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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