• 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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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Harbour Authorities, Offshore Exploration, Harbour Authorities Expenditure, Semi-State Sector Remuneration, Tax Code

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Order of Business (22 May 2018)

“We are out canvassing every day. There is no complacency.”

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (17 May 2018)

“I do not think this is happening and that there is proper enforcement of this. The Office of Government Procurement and the Minister of State should be putting pressure on the relevant Departments to ensure this happens. I mention Western Building Systems, which built a school in Whitehall that I understand has been sitting empty for perhaps a decade because it is structurally unsound. We...”

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (17 May 2018)

“11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering measures to deal with companies that are found to have been negligent, fraudulent or substandard in the work on public contracts; and if he will preclude the companies from bidding for public contracts in the future. [21724/18]”

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• Has spoken in 279 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 535 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 9 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.
• 57 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") 1738 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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