• Fianna Fail TD for Dublin Fingal East
• Former Fianna Fail Senator (Labour Panel)
• Entered the Dáil on 24 May 2007 — General election
• Entered the Seanad on 8 March 2011 — appointed
• Left the Seanad on 27 February 2016 — Resigned
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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Schools Building Projects Status, Garda Deployment, Schools Building Projects, Brexit Issues, Schools Site Acquisitions

(based on written questions asked by Darragh O'Brien and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (6 Mar 2025)

“This Question was previously answered on the 24 February 2024 through Dáil Question number 61 and the position has not changed. Issues regarding the development of the national electricity grid rest with EirGrid, as Transmission System Operator, and ESB Networks, as Distribution System Operator, who are independent of me as Minister in the exercise of their respective functions....”

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Weather Events (6 Mar 2025)

“My Department has not commissioned any climate engineering or geoengineering research activities that are being conducted within Irish airspace and nor have any such activities been brought to my attention.”

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statutory Instruments (6 Mar 2025)

“The information sought by the Deputy has been collated by my officials and is set out in the attached table.”

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• Has spoken in 51 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among TDs.
• Has spoken in 95 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — above average among Senators.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• People have made 2 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 1 comment on this Senator's speeches — average among Senators.
• 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.
• 56 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Darragh O'Brien speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 881 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
  (Yes, this is a silly statistic. We include it to draw your attention to why you should read more than just these numbers when forming opinions.)
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 728 times in debates — above average among Senators.
  (Yes, this is a silly statistic. We include it to draw your attention to why you should read more than just these numbers when forming opinions.)