• Fianna Fail TD for Laois-Offaly
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Barry Cowen speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Hospital Appointments Status, Departmental Expenditure, Medical Card Applications, Departmental Budgets, Social Welfare Appeals

(based on written questions asked by Barry Cowen and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Appointments Status (15 May 2024)

“129. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a case (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment. [21987/24]”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

“Apologies have been received from the Cathaoirleach, Deputy Flanagan, and from Deputy Cronin. Today we meet with An Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, to discuss matters that have arisen at the Foreign Affairs Council along with the individually tailored partnership programme with NATO. I understand the Tánaiste will be required to be in the Dáil to deliver a statement...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

“I thank the Tánaiste. I record apologies from Deputy Barry Cowen. I welcome to the Public Gallery Jeremy Wilmshurst and Colonel Sean Grant from the British Embassy. We have with us three new third secretaries from the Department of Foreign Affairs observing, and they are also very welcome. I call Deputy Matt Carthy to be followed by Deputy James Lawless.”

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• Has spoken in 44 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 100 written questions in the last year — below average among TDs.
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• 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.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 662 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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