Eugene Regan

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Eugene Regan, SC is an Irish politician and member of the 23rd Seanad Éireann for Fine Gael. He was elected for the first time to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on 11 June 2004, having spent in excess of €45,000 on his election[1]. On his election to the Seanad Eugene was appointed by Enda Kenny as Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Justice Equality and Law Reform and was made a member of the Joint Committee on the Constitution and the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women’s Rights.

Regan, along with Seán Barrett and fellow Councillor John Bailey, were selected as a Fine Gael candidate to stand in the 2007 general election in Dún Laoghaire. Only Barrett was elected. Regan received the support of former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald who intervened in a general election for the first time since leaving the Dáil in 1992. Support also came from Alan Dukes and Peter Sutherland. Regan became Mayor of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on 12 June 2006. He was elected to the Seanad on the Agricultural Panel on 24 July 2007.

During a career which began as a stagiaire (an unpaid volunteer) to Commissioner Patrick Hillery in 1973, Regan worked with Alan Dukes in the mid-1970s as an economist for the Irish Farmers Association in Dublin and Brussels.

Regan served in the cabinet of Peter Sutherland when the latter was EU Commissioner for Social Affairs and Competition. Following his return to Ireland from Brussels, he spent eight years as general manager of Agra Trading, a Dublin based company that trades agricultural produce internationally.

Regan qualified as a barrister in 1985, commenced practice in 1995 and became a Senior Counsel in 2005. He specialises in European law cases, many with a competition, state aid, public procurement or agricultural dimension.

An ardent pro-European, he is Chairman of the Lawyers Group and Project Leader of the Justice and Home Affairs Group in the Institute of European Affairs (IIEA), and has contributed to many publications on European law matters, both legal and media. He was also a leading advocate and campaigner in the Amsterdam Treaty and Nice Treaty referendum campaigns.

He lives in Monkstown, Co. Dublin with his Danish-born wife, Kista and two daughters, Naja and Caroline.

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