• Fine Gael TD for Dublin Bay North
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Tax Code, Decentralisation Programme, Departmental Agencies, Pension Provisions, Departmental Expenditure

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Impact on Carbon Budgets of Trend Towards Heavier and Larger Vehicles: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

“I thank the witnesses for the interesting presentations. To get down to brass tacks, as they say, can the witnesses give us a label for each car being sold that would indicate weight or embodied carbon - I do not know whether they are the same thing or are linearly connected - and its CO2 over a prospective 300,000 km lifetime? It would be a huge step forward if we could see that...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Impact on Carbon Budgets of Trend Towards Heavier and Larger Vehicles: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

“Is there a linear connection between weight and embodied carbon? Is that a straightforward multiplication?”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Impact on Carbon Budgets of Trend Towards Heavier and Larger Vehicles: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

“Is there a simple way of converting weight into embodied carbon? People do look at the figures for embodied carbon but they may not look at the figures for higher accident rates or greater road maintenance. The latter are issues for Government. Can we calculate the embodied carbon of different cars?”

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• Has spoken in 139 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 461 written questions in the last year — 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") 2069 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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