Fergus O'Dowd

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Fergus O'Dowd TD
Minister of State for the NewEra Project
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 March 2011
Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office May 2002
Constituency	Louth
Senator
In office September 1997 – May 2002
Constituency	Administrative Panel
Personal details
Born	(1948-09-01) 1 September 1948 Thurles, County Tipperary
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Fine Gael
Spouse(s)	Agnes O'Dowd
Children	3

Fergus O'Dowd (born 1 September 1948) is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He is a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency,^[1] and the Minister of State for the NewEra Project.^[2]

O'Dowd was born in Thurles, County Tipperary. He was educated by the Christian Brothers in Drogheda, County Louth. He currently lives in the town. He served three terms as Chairman of Drogheda Town Council: 1977–78, 1981–82 and 1994–95. He served on Louth County Council between 1979 and 2003. He is married to Agnes O'Dowd and they have three sons. He is a brother of Niall O'Dowd, publisher of the Irish Voice newspaper in New York City.^[3]

A teacher before entering politics, O'Dowd was elected to Seanad Éireann on the Administrative Panel in 1997. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election, on his fourth attempt.^[4] He was immediately appointed Fine Gael spokesperson for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. He was party spokesperson on Environment, Heritage and Local Government from 2004 to 2007, and on Transport and Marine from 2007 to 2010. In June 2010, he supported Richard Bruton's leadership challenge to Enda Kenny. Following Kenny's victory in a motion of confidence, he was appointed as party spokesperson on Education and Skills.^[5]

On 10 March 2011, he was appointed as Minister of State for the NewEra Project.^[2]

References

↑ "Mr. Fergus O'Dowd". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Government economic stimulus plan
↑ "Drumm says words taken out of context". Sunday Independent. 30 June 2013.
↑ "Fergus O'Dowd". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
↑ "Bruton & Noonan return to Fine Gael frontbench". RTÉ News. 1 July 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2010.

External links

Fergus O'Dowd's page on the Fine Gael website

Oireachtas
Preceded by Brendan McGahon (Fine Gael)	Fine Gael Teachta Dála for Louth 2002–present	Incumbent
Political offices
New office	Minister of State for the NewEra Project 2011–present	Incumbent

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As elected to the 31st Dáil in 2011, with changes Ceann Comhairle: Seán Barrett

Fine Gael (69)	Bannon Barry Breen Bruton Butler Buttimer C. Byrne Cannon Carey Coffey A. Collins Conlan Connaughton Coonan Corcoran Kennedy Coveney Creed J. Daly Deasy Deenihan Deering R. Doherty Donohoe Doyle Durkan English Farrell Feighan Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick C. Flanagan Griffin Harrington Harris B. Hayes T. Hayes Heydon Hogan H. Humphreys Keating Kehoe E. Kenny Kyne Lawlor McEntee McFadden McGinley McHugh McLoughlin Mitchell Mitchell O'Connor Mulherin D. Murphy E. Murphy Neville Noonan O'Donnell O'Donovan O'Dowd O'Mahony O'Reilly Perry J. P. Phelan Reilly Ring Shatter Stanton Twomey Varadkar

Labour Party (34)	Burton E. Byrne Conaghan Conway Costello Dowds A. Ferris Gilmore Hannigan Howlin K. Humphreys Kelly S. Kenny C. Lynch K. Lynch Lyons Maloney McCarthy McNamara Nash Nolan Ó Ríordáin J. O'Sullivan Penrose A. Phelan Quinn Rabbitte Ryan Sherlock Spring Stagg Tuffy Wall White

Fianna Fáil (20)	Browne Calleary N. Collins Cowen Dooley S. Fleming Keaveney Kelleher Kirk Kitt Martin McConalogue Michael McGrath McGuinness Moynihan Ó Cuív O'Dea Ó Fearghaíl Smith Troy

Sinn Féin (14)	Adams Colreavy Crowe P. Doherty Ellis M. Ferris McDonald McLellan Mac Lochlainn O'Brien Ó Caoláin Ó Snodaigh Stanley Tóibín

People Before Profit Alliance (1)	Boyd Barrett

Socialist Party (1)	Higgins

WUAG (1)	Healy

Independents (25)	Broughan J. Collins Creighton C. Daly Donnelly L. Flanagan T. Flanagan T. Fleming Grealish Halligan Healy-Rae Lowry F. McGrath Mattie McGrath Mathews C. Murphy Naughten Nulty M. O'Sullivan Pringle Ross Shortall Timmins Wallace Walsh

Italics = Party leaders Bold = Ministers

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Cathaoirleach Brian Mullooly (FF) Leader of the Seanad Donie Cassidy (FF)

Administrative Panel	Fintan Coogan, Jnr (FG) Joe Costello (Lab) Joe Doyle (FG) Michael Finneran (FF) Camillus Glynn (FF) Tony Kett (FF) Fergus O'Dowd (FG)

Agricultural Panel	Paddy Burke (FG) Peter Callanan (FF) John Connor (FG) Avril Doyle (FG) Tom Hayes (FG) Rory Kiely (FF) Patrick McGowan (FF) Pat Moylan (FF) Francis O'Brien (FF) Kathleen O'Meara (Lab) Jim Walsh (FF)

Cultural and Educational Panel	Maurice Manning (FG) Paschal Mooney (FF) Labhrás Ó Murchú (FF) Ann Ormonde (FF) Madeleine Taylor-Quinn (FG)

Industrial and Commercial Panel	Eddie Bohan (FF) Ernie Caffrey (FG) Paul Coghlan (FG) Liam T. Cosgrave (FG) Margaret Cox (FF) William Farrell (FF) Pat Gallagher (Lab) Mick Lanigan (FF) Denis O'Donovan (FF)

Labour Panel	Donie Cassidy (FF) Denis Cregan (FG) Liam Fitzgerald (FF) Des Hanafin (FF) Mary Jackman (FG) Dan Kiely (FF) Don Lydon (FF) Jarlath McDonagh (FG) Brian Mullooly (FF) Therese Ridge (FG) Seán Ryan (Lab)

National University of Ireland	Joe O'Toole (Ind) Feargal Quinn (Ind) Brendan Ryan (Ind)

University of Dublin	Mary Henry (Ind) David Norris (Ind) Shane Ross (Ind)

Nominated by the Taoiseach	Enda Bonner (FF) Frank Chambers (FF) John Dardis (PD) Tom Fitzgerald (FF) Dermot Fitzpatrick (FF) Jim Gibbons, Jnr (PD) Edward Haughey (FF) Maurice Hayes (Ind) Helen Keogh (PD) Ann Leonard (FF) Máirín Quill (PD)

Elected or nominated later	1998 John Cregan (FF) 2001 M. J. Nolan (FF) 2000 Seán Ó Fearghaíl (FF) Jim Glennon (FF) 2002 Martin Mackin (FF) Mary O'Rourke (FF)

FF: Fianna Fáil FG: Fine Gael Lab: Labour Party PD: Progressive Democrats Ind: Independent

Persondata
Name	Odowd, Fergus
Alternative names
Short description	Irish politician
Date of birth	1 September 1948
Place of birth	Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland
Date of death
Place of death

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