• Fianna Fail TD for Limerick City
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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Social Welfare Benefits, Social Welfare Benefits Data, Social Welfare Benefits Numbers, Departmental Bodies, Social Welfare Benefits Applications

(based on written questions asked by Willie O'Dea and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Review (17 Jan 2019)

“247. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in relation to a carer's allowance review in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2061/19]”

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jan 2019)

“I understand from the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection that quite a bit of work has been done by her Department on reciprocal arrangements for payments of social security benefits between Ireland and the United Kingdom in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Will the Taoiseach arrange for the publication of the results of that research to allay public concern, of which there...”

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

“168. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to meet his Canadian counterpart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1645/19]”

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• Has spoken in 54 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 320 written questions in the last year — 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 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 52 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Willie O'Dea speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 880 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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