• Independent TD for Donegal
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Thomas Pringle speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Defective Building Materials, Health Services, Vaccination Programme, National Broadband Plan Implementation

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Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

“I will pick up from where I finished the last day. There is no clarity in this legislation as to how oversight and accountability are to be achieved in practice, despite the fact that one of its aims is to simplify accountability structures. Among some of these new bodies, the Bill provides for the establishment of a board. I believe this is a backward step, and not only for the...”

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

“It is three weeks since the Government's latest mismanagement of the State’s finances resulted in the halting of 58 schools building projects. Yesterday I received a pathetic reply to a simple question to the Minister for Education that asked her to list the projects and the costs. She could not or would not do it. Why the secrecy? Why not tell the people what the Government has...”

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

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• Has spoken in 166 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 431 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 3 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 80 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Thomas Pringle speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1002 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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