TD dossier

Mary Lou McDonald TD

Mary Lou used chamber appearances to connect housing, cost-of-living pressure, and public service delivery into a broader opposition critique.

Operating readout

This profile combines member posture, committee footprint, and linked pressure from bills and topics.

Current signal

Backed the housing bill during second stage.

Committees: Housing · Cost of Living · Health

Leaders' Questions

Party room context

92% vote discipline across the current tracked window.

Constituency pressure

Recent activity suggests Dublin Central is being shaped by housing and health.

Operational measures used to understand how much this member can move the current parliamentary picture.

Recorded activity

Top 12% activity with a national rank of 14.

Vote participation

1 recorded divisions in the current seeded window.

Questions logged

Parliamentary questions surfaced from the official record.

Files where this member’s posture or committee activity is currently material.

Policy clusters where this member is shaping language, leverage, or public framing.

Topic

Housing is carrying 28% of the current briefing and is clustering around 3 party rooms.

Topic

Cost of Living is carrying 17% of the current briefing and is clustering around 2 party rooms.

Topic

Health is carrying 21% of the current briefing and is clustering around 3 party rooms.