• Fine Gael TD for Wicklow
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Simon Harris speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Staff, Departmental Bodies, Special Educational Needs, Health Services, Social Welfare Benefits

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Emergency Bed Capacity: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

“I will reply in the short time available to me. Whatever role I am in next week, if I am in any, I hope that Deputy Mattie McGrath and I can find another forum in which we can continue to exchange our views. We have had lots of ding-dongs during the time I have been Minister for Health. I respect the job that the Deputy has to do.”

Emergency Bed Capacity: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

“Let me shock the Deputy by agreeing with him on something because I think he is entirely right about the issue of churches. I take religious freedom very seriously. I also take the health and safety of people very seriously. The pandemic is real and has taken more than 2,000 lives on this island so far. Let us try to strike a note of harmony. The pandemic is real but people's faith is...”

Emergency Bed Capacity: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

“I will get the public health advice and the Government will make a decision tomorrow. I will fulfil my statutory duties in line with any laws in terms of any report I have to publish. I will come back to the Deputy about St. Brigid's District Hospital. Anyone who has a concern should not wait for a screening service but should go to see his or her GP today. The dates for the resumption...”

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• Has spoken in 59 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• People have made 0 comments 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.
• 61 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Simon Harris speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1051 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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