• Former Green Party TD for Dublin Fingal
• Left the Dáil on 29 November 2024 — General election
• Entered the Dáil on 29 November 2019 — Byelection

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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (22 Jan 2025)

“The aim of Community Employment (CE) is to enhance the employability of disadvantaged and unemployed persons by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their communities. In addition, it helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return-to-work routine. The general rule relating to...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (22 Jan 2025)

“Official poverty data is published annually by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). This is an annual voluntary survey of c. 5,000 households (c. 12,000 individuals) carried out by the CSO. The survey collects information on the income and living conditions of different households in Ireland, in order to derive indicators on poverty,...”

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (22 Jan 2025)

“Official poverty data is published annually by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). This is an annual voluntary survey of c. 5,000 households (c. 12,000 individuals) carried out by the CSO. The 2023 SILC survey data, published by the CSO in March 2024, shows that the 2023 national consistent poverty rate was 3.6% down from 4.9% in...”

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• Has spoken in 48 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 3 written questions in the last year — well below average among TDs.
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• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 4 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 260 times in debates — below average among TDs.
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