• Labour TD for Cork East
• Entered the Dáil on 24 May 2007 — General election
• Email me whenever Seán Sherlock speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Health Services, Hospital Services, Social Welfare Benefits, Medical Cards, Ministerial Meetings

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Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

“I thank sincerely the people of Cork East for giving me a mandate again to serve them in this, the Thirty-third Dáil. I wish to express my gratitude and sense of pride in being here today. I make a very simple request of this Dáil, while we are in a collegiate frame of mind. Two specific issues came up on the doorsteps aside from housing and so on, namely the future of the early...”

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

“I am sharing time with Deputy Fitzmaurice. Hopefully somebody will send out a text to tell them he will be up in five minutes.”

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

“Every week we are in this Chamber or at a committee talking about climate action. If the Government is to achieve everything that it has set out in the climate action plan, it would be useful if we could nail down the financial package involved. Let us take targets around afforestation or the retrofitting of houses. While I do not wish to be partisan tonight, by any objective analysis,...”

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• Has spoken in 92 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 279 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 1 comment on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 44 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Seán Sherlock speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 583 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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