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A selection of Conor Murphy's votes

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• Has never voted on paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability
• Has never voted on fewer MPs in the House of Commons
• Has never voted on an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency
• Has never voted on removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords
• Has never voted on a reduction in spending on welfare benefits
• Has never voted on a wholly elected House of Lords

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Recent appearances

• Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: 'A Vision for Northern Ireland outside the EU' 19 Sep 2016

  I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion, although I do not particularly think that the party opposite is sincere in bringing it. It cannot possibly imagine that anyone would sign up to the vision that it has put to us today. I do not think that it fully expects anyone to. To be quite honest, from looking at the demeanour of its Members over there, I think that they are here for...

• Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Disability-Related Premiums) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 — Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Carer Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 — Draft Renewables Obligation Closure (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 27 Jun 2016

  The Committee was first briefed on the closure of the NIRO to small-scale onshore wind at its meeting on 8 June. We would have expected to see an SL1 the following week so that the Committee could fulfil its proper scrutiny function. However, it was not until the evening of 21 June that the Committee received the SL1 and the statutory rule, with the request that the Committee consider and...

• Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: United Kingdom Withdrawal from the European Union 27 Jun 2016

  I am very pleased to get the chance to speak in this debate. There is quite a lot of political difference already on the issues that were debated and the outcome of the referendum. One thing that does unify us is that we are left with an impending mess as a consequence of the vote that was taken last Thursday. It is the responsibility of all of us to try to navigate our way out of the mess...

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Sinn Féin MLA for Newry and Armagh, Former Sinn Fein MP for Newry and Armagh

Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 30 March 2015 — General election

Entered the Assembly on 25 June 1998 — General election

Party was Sinn Féin until 30 Jan 2007; Sinn Fein until 12 Apr 2010; Sinn Féin until 1 Jul 2012; Sinn Fein until 30 Mar 2015

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Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Seamus Mallon
• Jim Nicholson

Future MPs in this constituency

• Mickey Brady

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• Has spoken in 0 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs. See all Conor Murphy’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — well below average amongst MPs.
• Responsiveness to messages sent via WriteToThem.com in 2014: Too little data for valid analysis.
• People have made 11 annotations on this MP’s speeches — above average amongst MPs.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 0 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)