• Sinn Fein TD for Dublin Central
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Mary Lou McDonald speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Staff, Exchequer Savings, Departmental Agencies, Pension Provisions

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Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 Mar 2025)

“I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to repeal the provision in the Water Services Act 2017 allowing Uisce Éireann to introduce a customer charge for use of water in excess of the specified threshold amount. We move this legislation today because Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael cannot be trusted on water charges. The legislation would scrap water charges...”

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 Mar 2025)

“I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."”

Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)

“With all due respect, it is hardly convincing for the Taoiseach to warn us about the impending difficulties for the multi-annual framework for the budget when out of the other side of his mouth, he has lauded what amounts to a weapons race and a hyper-militarisation of Europe. It is also ironic to note that the origins of the European project going back to the European Coal and Steel...”

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• Has spoken in 121 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 65 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
• People have made 1 comment on this TD's speeches — above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 77 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Mary Lou McDonald speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1914 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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