• Sinn Fein Senator (Labour Panel)
• Entered the Seanad on 25 April 2016 — General election
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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2024)

“I will speak about the issue of airports in the west of Ireland. I was at Shannon Airport last week. It is good to see the car park there full again. However, there is still plenty of unused capacity at Shannon and Cork airports, and there is certainly potential capacity at Kerry Airport, yet 88% of all flights that leave this island do so from the east coast. We know all the challenges...”

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

“I thank the Chair. It is good to see the Minister. I am so frustrated in relation to this issue and it is perhaps because this started for me in 2009, when I was a SIPTU official, and the then Fianna Fáil Government decided to shut down Nenagh hospital's accident and emergency department. We then saw the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government ignore it for the next five years. I want to...”

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

“The question I asked the Minister was if he accepts that UHL was in crisis when he took office in 2020? It is a question requiring a "Yes" or "No" answer.”

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• Has spoken in 107 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among Senators.
• People have made 2 comments on this Senator's speeches — well above average among Senators.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 783 times in debates — well above average among Senators.
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