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Election 2016

Carol Nolan

Party

Sinn Féin

Constituency

Offaly

Occupation

Councillor and teacher

Age

36

ELECTED

Biography

She was elected as an Offaly county councillor in the 2014 local elections on her first attempt. A teacher by profession, she is involved with a number of local organisations and campaigns against homelessness as well as tackling other social issues including problems with the health service.

Question Time

Q.

Why should someone vote for you (in 140 characters or fewer)?

I am fully involved in the community and have an in-depth understanding of the issues affecting the rural and urban areas of the constituency.

Q.

What is your number one priority for your constituency?

For the crisis in our hospitals to be addressed, more front-line staff to be recruited, and the cuts to the out-of-hours doctor service to be reversed.

Q.

What one thing would you like to do in your first 100 days of the new Dáil if you are elected?

I would call for more funding and more front-line staff to be made available to our hospitals in Tullamore and Nenagh,

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