Paudie Coffey

Paudie Coffey TD
Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy
Incumbent
Assumed office July 2014
Preceded by	Jan O'Sullivan
Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2011
Constituency	Waterford
Senator
In office July 2007 – February 2011
Constituency	Industrial and Commercial Panel
Personal details
Born	(1969-05-15) 15 May 1969 County Waterford, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Fine Gael
Alma mater	Waterford Institute of Technology, University College Dublin

Paudie Coffey (born 15 May 1969) is an Irish Fine Gael politician, and has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency since February 2011.^[1] On 15 July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of the Environment with special responsibility for Housing, Planning and Coordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy.

He was first elected to Waterford County Council in 1999 for the Suir electoral area, and re-elected in 2004. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2007 general election for the Waterford constituency but was subsequently elected to Seanad Éireann in July 2007 on the Industrial and Commercial Panel.^[2]

Coffey was elected for the Waterford constituency at the 2011 general election with 9,698 (18.1%) first preference votes.^[2]

On 15 July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State with responsibility for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.^[3]

References

↑ "Mr. Paudie Coffey". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
↑ 2.0 2.1 "Paudie Coffey". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
↑ "Simon Harris among new Ministers of State". RTÉ News. 15 July 2014.

External links

Paudie Coffey's page on the Fine Gael website

Oireachtas
Preceded by Martin Cullen (Fianna Fáil)	Fine Gael Teachta Dála for Waterford 2011–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Jan O'Sullivan	Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy 2014–present	Incumbent

Current members of Dáil Éireann

As elected to the 31st Dáil in 2011, with changes (including one vacant seat) Ceann Comhairle: Seán Barrett

Fine Gael (68)	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 T. Hayes Heydon 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 Walsh

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

Renua Ireland (3)	Creighton§ T. Flanagan Timmins

Socialist Party (2)	Coppinger Higgins§

Anti-Austerity Alliance (1)	P. Murphy

People Before Profit (1)	Boyd Barrett

WUAG (1)	Healy

Independents (20)	Broughan J. Collins C. Daly Donnelly Fitzmaurice T. Fleming Grealish Halligan Healy-Rae Lowry F. McGrath Mattie McGrath Mathews C. Murphy Naughten M. O'Sullivan Pringle Ross Shortall Wallace

§Party leaders Italics = Ministers

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Cathaoirleach Pat Moylan (FF) Leader of the Seanad Donie Cassidy (FF)

Administrative Panel	Mark Daly (FF) Paschal Donohoe (FG) Camillus Glynn (FF) Tony Kett (FF) Nicky McFadden (FG) Brendan Ryan (Lab) Diarmuid Wilson (FF)

Agricultural Panel	Paul Bradford (FG) Paddy Burke (FG) Peter Callanan (FF) John Carty (FF) Pearse Doherty (SF) Alan Kelly (Lab) Pat Moylan (FF) Francis O'Brien (FF) John Paul Phelan (FG) Eugene Regan (FG) Jim Walsh (FF)

Cultural and Educational Panel	Cecilia Keaveney (FF) Labhrás Ó Murchú (FF) Ann Ormonde (FF) Liam Twomey (FG) Alex White (Lab)

Industrial and Commercial Panel	Larry Butler (FF) Paudie Coffey (FG) Paul Coghlan (FG) Dominic Hannigan (Lab) Marc MacSharry (FF) Denis O'Donovan (FF) Joe O'Reilly (FG) Kieran Phelan (FF) Mary White (FF)

Labour Panel	Jerry Buttimer (FG) Donie Cassidy (FF) Maurice Cummins (FG) Geraldine Feeney (FF) Frances Fitzgerald (FG) John Hanafin (FF) Fidelma Healy Eames (FG) Terry Leyden (FF) Michael McCarthy (Lab) Ned O'Sullivan (FF) Phil Prendergast (Lab)

National University of Ireland	Rónán Mullen (Ind) Joe O'Toole (Ind) Feargal Quinn (Ind)

University of Dublin	Ivana Bacik (Ind, then Lab) David Norris (Ind) Shane Ross (Ind)

Nominated by the Taoiseach	Dan Boyle (GP) Martin Brady (FF) Ivor Callely (FF, then Ind) Ciarán Cannon (PD, then FG) Maria Corrigan (FF) Déirdre de Búrca (GP) John Ellis (FF) Eoghan Harris (Ind) Lisa McDonald (FF) Brian Ó Domhnaill (FF) Fiona O'Malley (PD, then Ind)

Elected or appointed later	2009 James Carroll (FF) Niall Ó Brolcháin (GP) 2010 Paschal Mooney (FF) Mark Dearey (GP) 2011 Darragh O'Brien (FF)

FF: Fianna Fáil FG: Fine Gael Lab: Labour Party GP: Green Party PD: Progressive Democrats Ind: Independent SF: Sinn Féin