• Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Alternative Energy Projects, Schools Building Projects, Telecommunications Services, Energy Resources

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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)

“I suspect it will relate to funding.”

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)

“I welcome and thank those present for coming in for an extended session. I have just a few questions because a lot have been answered. Clearly, this has now developed as international best practice. We are looking to apply it here, particularly having run a pilot project in Galway for four years. I would like to understand something about the Galway Barnahus pilot, which is now going to...”

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)

“I hear what Ms Shortt is saying but it is important that it is the experience of the child that comes through this structure, which is designed to be supportive. However we might design how staff are moved around in terms of co-location in order that we can get specialists quickly into the right rooms they need to be in, it is important that the experience of the child needs to be very much...”

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• Has spoken in 42 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• People have made 10 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 17–18 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") 2993 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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