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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Schools Building Projects Status, Hospitals Capital Programme, Hospital Services, School Accommodation Provision, Hospital Staff Data

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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Oct 2025)

“204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position regarding the Saint Columba's College building project now that the tender report has been submitted since July 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54082/25]”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

“I welcome Mr. Conneely and Mr. Bonner, and Mr. Early who is listening to us online from Arranmore island. I also welcome Mr. Neily Kavanagh, Mr. McBride and Ms Muireann Kavanagh. This is probably a small committee room compared to the committee room where Muireann addressed the European Parliament fisheries committee last year. It is important that we hear from the witnesses. We have...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

“When we consider that people are going out and catching them by line, the impact that has on the stocks is 0.00001%. That is something we should take a particular interest in and we can make a case to the Minister and to the Commission to allow for that. It has no impact at all on those stocks. There is no more environmentally-friendly fishing. In the past few years, the drop in crab...”

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• Has spoken in 23 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 46 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 14–15 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") 682 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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