No, you would not.
On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 697 of 704 decisive votes (2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FG | Fine Gael | 6,069 | 2020-02-20 – 2026-10-01 |
Membership spells on record: FG 2011-02-25–2016-03-09 · FG 2016-03-10–2020-01-14 · FG 2020-02-08–2024-11-08 · FG 2024-11-29–present
No, you would not.
It is all provided for.
I would not mention child welfare.
How is your press office? When did you know, Pearse?
Do not bring up children in here today.
It is better to have our small businesses.
I did not sign the contract. Produce the contract.
You just said I signed the contract.
Do you remember your proposal?
Do you remember your proposal?
It was to stop it and not build.
We did.
Read the budget.
We never-----
There will be a number of benefits before Christmas.
No.
Let us pass this budget first.
I thank Deputy McDonald for raising this important issue. I will say at the outset, as the Ceann Comhairle has said to us before in this House, I am very conscious of discussing clinical details or, indeed, those of us discussing them who are not clinicians. I say that in a general sense but I say it in an important sense because Deputy McDonald asked me to provide operations when, of course, the decision to operate or not will always be a clinical matter. I am sure that is a view she would share. Politicians do no…
Deputy McDonald is better than that. At least, I thought she was. She is asking me, as a politician, to give a commitment to a child to have an operation regardless of whether a clinician believes that operation to be the best care pathway or not. That is what the Deputy is asking me to do.
No. Unless over the summer the Deputy became a surgeon, she is asking me to recommend clinical care pathways for an extraordinarily sick child. I want that child, Harvey, to get the best clinical care possible. I want Harvey to get all of the treatment possible. I want every child in Ireland, as does the Minister for Health, to get all of the care possible and I believe the best way to progress these matters is through clinical consultation. What I can absolutely tell Harvey's parents and tell all parents is whatev…