• 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

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

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (13 Mar 2019)

“347. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a jobseeker's payment by payment type and county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12670/19]”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (13 Mar 2019)

“348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of rent supplement by county; the number who have had their payment increased over the prescribed limits in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12671/19]”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Data (13 Mar 2019)

“349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who received an exceptional needs payment by county in 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12672/19]”

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• Has spoken in 61 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 340 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") 887 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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