• Fianna Fail TD for Limerick City
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• 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

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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

“There is a commitment in the programme for Government to develop a new help-to-buy scheme to assist first-time house purchasers. Does the Taoiseach agree with me that this scheme is not working particularly well? In my experience, it takes up to six months to get a decision on whether one can get a loan to purchase a house. There are more refusals than acceptances. Does the Government...”

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (5 Dec 2018)

“74. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives being taken to alleviate overcrowding in University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50713/18]”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ticket Touting (4 Dec 2018)

“All Members support the principle of the Bill, which has cross-party support. That said, I ask the Minister to confirm whether she recently received a legal opinion to the effect that there are very serious constitutional difficulties with the Bill as proposed. What weight does she intend to give that advice?”

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• Has spoken in 51 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 331 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") 877 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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