• Fianna Fail TD for Cork South-Central
• Entered the Dáil on 30 November 2024 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Schools Building Projects, Housing Schemes, Departmental Funding, Departmental Data, Housing Policy

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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (4 Dec 2025)

“I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I appreciate the response. As the Minister of State said, this is to be a new 16-classroom primary school with four classrooms for children with special education needs. This facility is so badly needed in the local community and the constituency that I represent. My main reason for submitting this Topical Issue matter was to get a status...”

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (4 Dec 2025)

“I thank the Minister of State for taking this question. I want to raise the issue of the proposed amalgamation of Shanbally and Ringaskiddy national schools in County Cork. They are two existing schools in older buildings. Ringaskiddy has a school population of approximately 60 students and Shanbally is larger with approximately 199 students. The proposed amalgamation has been on the...”

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Inland Fisheries Ireland
Special Report No. 118 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Governance, internal control and value for money issues in Inland Fisheries Ireland (4 Dec 2025)

“I offer my apologies that I missed a lot of the discussion. I had another commitment. I will just pick up on one or two issues. As a representative from Cork I am aware that the fish kill in the Blackwater river was raised earlier. Just to be clear, there is no detection of any cause of that fish kill.”

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• Has spoken in 88 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 255 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 48 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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