• Sinn Fein TD for Cork North-Central
• Entered the Dáil on 9 February 2020 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Health Services, Housing Schemes, Special Educational Needs, Departmental Data, Covid-19 Pandemic

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Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

“This Government says if the Opposition only brought forward solutions, it would listen and would implement them. What a load of hogwash. Here we have a solution and though the Minister of State might not agree with every part of it, it is a solution that is being brought forward in the same way that two weeks ago I brought a motion to the House to clear all the boarded-up vacant council...”

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: General Practitioner Services (24 Jun 2025)

“I thank the Minister of State. I accept that she has been given this information and, in all honesty, she has come here and presented it to the Dáil tonight. However, I have to say that information has gone into the Dáil record tonight that is not true. I ask the Minister of State sincerely to go back to the Department and the HSE and ask them why they gave her false information....”

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: General Practitioner Services (24 Jun 2025)

“Thank you. An important question the Minister of State might ask is how it can go from 2,200 down to 22, and they are the Minister of State's figures. I respect that the Minister of State is doing her best tonight.”

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• Has spoken in 87 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 466 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 390 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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