• 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 Data, Departmental Funding, Medical Aids and Appliances

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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Apr 2026)

“I fully support it. As Deputy McAuliffe said, a range of issues are highlighted some of which are very significant. I support the suggestion they should come before us. There are significant management and governance issues that need to be probed and questioned further.”

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Apr 2026)

“I share the absolute outrage that members are expressing. It is an absolutely breathtaking sum of money. In the context of where we are as a country now and the pressures that people are under, to see €53,933 spent on these totally unnecessary services is shocking and unjustifiable. We absolutely need to follow up on this and find out who sanctioned it, who agreed to it and who...”

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Apr 2026)

“The logic given in the correspondence is that the services were used because of "the complexity and breadth of legal issues" involved. It was not legal training. It was PR training that they received from a communications company. It does raise the question whether we asked if those witnesses received legal training or if other professional fees were incurred in preparation for their...”

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• Has spoken in 137 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 297 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 69 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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