On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 509 of 516 decisive votes (0 abstentions excluded). Read it as a government-or-opposition indicator rather than a measure of influence — the figure is near 100% for members supporting the government of the day and near 0% for those opposing it.
This is the point of the site: contributions keep the party held on the day, not the one held now.
| Party | Recorded as | Contributions | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| FF | Fianna Fáil | 19,180 | 2020-02-20 – 2026-09-30 |
Membership spells on record: FF 1989-06-15–1992-11-05 · FF 1992-11-25–1997-05-15 · FF 1997-06-06–2002-04-25 · FF 2002-05-17–2007-04-30 · FF 2007-05-24–2011-02-01 · FF 2011-02-25–2016-03-09 · FF 2016-03-10–2020-01-14 · FF 2020-02-08–2024-11-08 · FF 2024-11-29–present
-----Beakonshaw Limited, Hibernia Real Estate Group, the Ronan Group Real Estate about the glass bottle site, Cosgrave Property Group and Bartra Capital Property Management.
The Sinn Féin spokesperson, Eoin Ó Broin, has met all of these organisations-----
-----and yet the full attempt by Deputy McDonald and her party in the past few days-----
-----has been to try to smear me, and others by association,-----
-----by saying we are responding to lobbyists. We are not.
It is hypocrisy of the worst kind-----
-----and it just sums up-----
-----the shallowness of Sinn Féin's approach.
I am interested in real change and getting things done and you are not.
Is féidir liom é seo a shoiléiriú má tá deacracht ag na Teachtaí Dála.
I thought you called me.
Táim sásta-----
I did not call Deputy McDonald-----
I did say, más féidir liom-----
I am somewhat amused that the Deputy is saying we have influenced housing policy since 2016. For the past two weeks, he has been saying that confidence and supply was in no way a precedent in the context of being involved in Government and so on.
We were not in government from 2016 to 2020; we have been in government since 2020. The Deputy used the phrase "lies of omission".
I would point out that the previous Government carried out a review of the rental sector last year. Following on from that, it requested the Housing Agency to conduct a specific review of the operation of the RPZ scheme. It is doing that. The review will be concluded by the end of quarter 1. That is the intended conclusion date. As the Deputy knows, the legislation that gave rise to the RPZs is due to expire by the end of 2025. There are a number of options. We can extend it or we can examine it, which is what the …
-----is that it is all noise and condemnation, with very few solutions being offered.
I am not clear that there are billions of funds in Europe for housing. Any funds that are available, we would seek. However, housing competence within Europe has been at a low level. This is the first Commission with a housing Commissioner. As we have heard in various reports, the European Parliament is also now engaging for the first time.
There are not billions available to Ireland.