• Labour TD for Tipperary
• Former Labour Senator (Agricultural Panel)
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Entered the Seanad on 13 September 2007 — General election
• Left the Seanad on 5 June 2009 — Resigned
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): An Garda Síochána, Departmental Correspondence, Departmental Expenditure, International Protection, Hospital Staff

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

“I will ask the Taoiseach about staffing levels in UHL. The Government has said that it is committed to doing everything it can in this regard, hence Mr. Justice Clarke's report, which is due out soon and which I presume will recommend a level 3 hospital given the Minister's statement in recent weeks. There are 183 nursing positions vacant despite some derogation from the embargo. What is...”

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 May 2024)

“88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a second ASD unit will be in place in a school (details supplied) for the 2024-2025 school year. [23212/24]”

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (21 May 2024)

“The Minister of State is a good person but that response, by and large, is a standard reply. I contacted his officials, as he will be aware, this evening to let him know that I would read into the record this agreement from November 2019. I cannot state this any clearer. If the Department, which, granted this, in 2019, was the then Department of Justice and Equality, cannot honour the...”

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• Has spoken in 33 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 578 written questions in the last year — well 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 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 70 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Alan Kelly speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 801 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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