Swords is a qualified special needs assistant and works with children and adolescents with mental health issues.

I’m a hardworking individual - I’m from a working class family so I know the struggles that people go through. I have a voice that I think needs more representation in government but that a lot of people don’t have.

Mental health is first, but housing is a very close second. I think the two are part and parcel together - if people don’t have a home they don’t have a life.

I want to see a major increase in mental health services for children and young people, in Kildare and nationally. There’s nothing there at the moment.