Aindrias Moynihan
The measure only exists where this member actually spoke in the debate their vote belongs to, and where that vote can be tied to a specific question. Both cuts are steep.
| Votes cast | 1,112 | |
| … spoke in that debate section | 15 | |
| … vote tied to a specific question | 11 | |
| … position stated clearly enough to score | 0 |
The third row is the sharpest cut. A committee-stage sitting can hold fifteen divisions while its speeches discuss forty-two numbered amendments, and the record does not say which amendment each division was. Those votes are counted here and deliberately left unscored rather than guessed.
The same scorable votes, split by whether the member went with their party. The top-right cell is the one worth reading: a stated position reversed while following the party line.
| Voted with own party | Voted against own party | |
|---|---|---|
| Matched their words | 0 | 0 |
| Contradicted their words | 4 | 0 |
Not scored: 4 where the vote could not be tied to a question, 7 where no clear position was stated in the debate.
Valence runs −1 (negative) to +1 (positive). This is a separate measure from alignment above and says nothing about how anyone voted — "the Minister has been asleep at the wheel" is strongly negative and carries no position on the question.
| Model | Speeches scored | Mean valence | Corpus mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| vader | 601 | +0.362 | +0.423 |
Mean tone by topic, most negative first. Topics come from an LDA model fitted over debate contributions; the terms are the model's, the labels are hand-assigned.
| Topic | Speeches | Mean valence |
|---|---|---|
| Irish-language contributions (sorted by language, not policy) agus · seo · leis · sin · atá · bhfuil | 25 | -0.378 |
| Local government, roads and regional funding county · cork · discuss · west · road · local | 15 | +0.115 |
| Transport, Dublin and rural development local · transport · dublin · city · public · community | 8 | +0.392 |
| Climate, agriculture, energy and water water · climate · farmers · energy · food · agriculture | 15 | +0.420 |
| Health services, HSE and disability health · services · care · service · hse · mental | 5 | +0.444 |
| Departmental programmes and funding (diffuse) department · national · funding · new · important · programme | 5 | +0.829 |
Contributions whose tone sits more than two standard deviations from this member's own average. Baselines are per member on purpose — an absolute threshold would just rank people by temperament.
Ba mhaith liom, go tapa, cúpla focal a rá faoi na leasuithe seo. Tá an-bhéim sa Bhille ar iallach a chur ar chomhlachtaí pobail freastal ar phobal na Gaolainne trí Ghaolainn. Gan dabht, tá dualgais reachtaíochta ann ar aon nós ach in ainneoin sin bíonn comhlac…
Tá ról ceannaireachta ag oifig an Taoisigh agus tá deis an-mhaith aige cúrsaí Gaelainne a chur chun cinn, ní hamháin sa tír seo ach go forleathan ar fud na cruinne. Tá ardán mór agus láidir ag an Taoiseach agus a oifig i measc pobal na Gaelainne ar fud na crui…
Bhí plé bríomhar againn ar Chéim an Choiste ar an ábhar seo. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as é sin a thógáil san áireamh agus as a thacaíocht do na leasuithe éagsúla atá againn sa ghrúpa seo. Baineann siad le teagmháil nuair atá duine ag scríobh chuig c…
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. Tá ról craolacháin sheirbhísí pobail lárnach ag RTÉ agus tá muinín an phobail bunúsach ansin. Glacaim leis go bhfuil foireann bhainistíochta nua le teacht i bhfeidhm agus cabhróidh na fiosrúcháin sin atá luaite ag an Aire. Maidir…
The change in SNA allocations has caused a great deal of concern and distress among school communities local to me. Aghabullogue was due to lose half of its SNAs. Bweeng was to lose one of its three. Scoil Barra and Boherbue parents also highlighted concerns. …
Déarfaidh mé cúpla focal ar an alt seo. Fáiltím roimh an tslí a chinntíonn sé go mbeidh muintir na Gaeltachta ábalta a n-ionadaithe féin ó thoghadh. Is mór an dul chun cinn é sin agus caithfimid a bheith cinnte fáiltiú roimhe sin. Bhí córas lochtach ann, áit a…
Baineann na leasuithe seo le ról ceannaireachta agus go mbeadh duine i gcónaí i bhfeighil ar chúrsaí Gaolainne agus freagrach as cúrsaí Gaolainne. Mura mbíonn an príomhoifigeach féin á dhéanamh sin, bheadh an deis ann duine a ainmniú ina áit nó ina háit. Tá sé…
Ar an gcéad dul síos, díreoidh mé isteach ar chúpla rud dearfacha atá ag teacht chun cinn ó thaobh cúrsaí teanga de, ina measc an obair mhór atá ar siúl ag na hoifigigh pleanála teanga agus iad ag díriú isteach ar thorthaí ar leith. Dár ndóigh, tá an t-ádh lin…
Tá an-áthas orm páirt a ghlacadh sa díospóireacht seo, nó aon am atá díospóireacht ann ar chúrsaí Gaolainne ach go háirithe le linn Sheachtain na Gaeilge, agus an tAire Stáit, an Teachta Chambers, ag tabhairt an Bhille teanga nua chun cinn. Tréaslaím leis as s…
Tá sé fíorthábachtach go mbeidh deis ag an bpobal a thuairimí a chur in iúl mar gheall ar an mbord agus ar an leagan amach a bheidh ann. Gan dabht, sa tslí atá ann faoi láthair, níl an rogha ag an bpobal a ionadaithe féin a roghnú. Tá laige ansin agus tá laghd…
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit agus tá an-chuid sonraí ansin. Tá togra an-dearfach i gceist agus i ndán do Choláiste Íosagáin leis an mol digiteach atá luaite aige agus go leor eile. Tá sé fíorthábhachtach go gcuirfí é sin i gcrích agus tuigim go bhfuil c…
I need to raise the matter of non-Covid patients who are waiting for access to health services. Many vulnerable people, whether they are in hospital, in the accident and emergency department or up in the ward, would previously have had a family member who coul…
Alignment by the party a member sat for on the day, with 95% Wilson intervals. This is the test the measure could have failed.
| Party | Aligned | 95% CI | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| PBP | 82.5% | 68–91% | 40 |
| LAB | 78.2% | 69–85% | 101 |
| IND | 76.5% | 72–81% | 327 |
| SF | 75.8% | 69–81% | 198 |
| SD | 71.4% | 58–82% | 49 |
| FG | 69.1% | 62–76% | 162 |
| FF | 67.9% | 60–75% | 165 |
| GP | 56.8% | 41–71% | 37 |
Members of government parties align their stated position with their vote 9.4 points less often than Independents — bootstrap 95% CI [+2.7, +16.0], which excludes zero. Opposition parties sit 9.5 points above government too, CI [+3.1, +15.9]. Independents and opposition members are indistinguishable from each other (−0.0 points, CI [−6.3, +6.2]). So the gap does not come from having no party; it comes from being in government, which is what a whip effect should look like. Read this as the measure behaving sensibly, not as a finding about any individual.
Two automated methods were built and both failed. What survives is the rule-based layer, which is why the coverage above is narrow.
| Method | Accuracy | 95% CI | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| nli-vs-mover-anchor:deberta | 35.9% | 29–42% | 234 |
| nli-vs-mover-anchor:distilroberta | 11.5% | 8–16% | 234 |
Zero-shot entailment was asked to judge contributions whose true position is known — the member moved the amendment, so the answer is support by construction — and got it right 11.5% of the time, returning "unclear" or "oppose" for nearly everything. A classifier trained on the rule-labelled cases over the corpus embeddings reached 71.1% against a 65.3% majority-class baseline: better than chance, not better enough. Both are excluded from every figure on this page. Only the rule-based cascade, which is exact where it fires and silent where it does not, is used.
Position is read from the member's own contributions in the debate section the division belongs to, by a three-step cascade: an explicit move of the question ("I move amendment No. 5", true by construction); declarative stance phrases ordered so negations are tested first, because "I cannot support" and "I do not oppose" both defeat a naive keyword match; and, where neither fires, a zero-shot entailment model judging the contribution against the question put. Tone uses a separate model and is reported separately. Agreement against hand-labelled cases, with bootstrap intervals, is on the evidence page; no score here should be read without it.