• Fianna Fail TD for Laois-Offaly
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Barry Cowen speaks (no more than once per day)

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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Hospital Appointments Status, Departmental Expenditure, Medical Card Applications, Departmental Budgets, Social Welfare Appeals

(based on written questions asked by Barry Cowen and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Apr 2024)

“343. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a case (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment with the ENT Department, Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [18652/24]”

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Apr 2024)

“311. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment with a neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. [17255/24]”

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (16 Apr 2024)

“637. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a case (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment with the orthopaedic department, Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [16016/24]”

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• Has spoken in 46 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 98 written questions in the last year — below average among TDs.
• People have made 0 comments on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 41 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Barry Cowen speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 662 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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