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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Health Services, Medical Cards, Social Welfare Benefits, Social Welfare Appeals, Hospital Waiting Lists

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Arts (Recognition of Comedy) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Nov 2025)

“Before I explain the division, the parents of Deputy Keira Keogh, Vinny and Mary, are in the Gallery and she has asked each and every one of you to behave yourselves in order to impress them. I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion on the Arts (Recognition of Comedy) (Amendment) Bill 2024. On Thursday, 6 November 2025, on the question, "That the amendment to the...”

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Aois Vótála a Laghdú go Sé Bliana Déag), 2025: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Reduction of Voting Age to Sixteen Years) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Nov 2025)

“I must now deal with a deferred division relating to the ministerial amendment to the Second Reading motion on the Bill. Last Thursday, on the question, "That the amendment be made", a division was claimed and that division will be taken now.”

Paediatric Spinal Surgery Waiting Lists: Statements (19 Nov 2025)

“This scandal has gone on for years under the noses of the Department of Health and all those involved in what should have been the management of a serious issue. Nothing was really done during those years to encourage parents to engage with consultants and hospitals to ensure there would be early intervention for them. We have seen failure after failure and nobody is held to account. In...”

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• Has spoken in 228 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 261 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 410 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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