• Sinn Fein TD for Donegal
• Former Sinn Fein Senator (Agricultural Panel)
• Entered the Dáil on 26 November 2010 — Byelection
• Entered the Seanad on 13 September 2007 — General election
• Left the Seanad on 26 November 2010 — Resigned
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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Tax Code, Tax Yield, Hospital Appointments Status, Tax Data, Passport Services

(based on written questions asked by Pearse Doherty and answered by departments)

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

“Government members talk relentlessly about price hikes like they are commenting on the weather. It drives people spare to see the Government doing nothing as they get fleeced every day. Banks are posting €5 billion profits from squeezing homeowners and short-changing savers. We have double-digit rent increases, crippling childcare costs and four consecutive months of petrol and...”

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2025)

“That is what is happening to the children of Ireland. There is not enough urgency in government which is allowing this to happen. It happens over and over. When will parents know whether their child was one of the children operated on wrongly?”

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2025)

“Tá scannal eile ó thaobh cúraim shláinte do pháistí inár dtír. Chímid ó thuarascáil neamhspleách atá foilsithe in The Ditch go raibh obráidí déanta ar na céadta páistí sa tír seo agus é ráite anois nach raibh na hobráidí sin ag teastáil uathu. Tá sé seo...”

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• Has spoken in 125 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 592 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 5 comments on this TD's speeches — well 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.
• 111 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Pearse Doherty speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1921 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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