Emmet Stagg TD - Biography

Constituency:
Kildare North

Euro Electoral Region:
Ireland East

Electoral Status:
Emmet is currently a sitting TD for Kildare North .

Address:
736, Lodge Park
Straffan
Co. Kildare

Tel:
Home: 01-6272149
Dáil: 01-6183013
Fax (home): 01-6270601
Fax (Dáil): 01-6184538

Email:
emmet.stagg@oireachtas.ie

Political Career:

  • Appointed to Committee on Procedure and Privileges, June 2011
  • Labour Party Chief Whip 2007 to date;
  • Labour Party Chief Whip and Spokesperson on Nuclear Safety 2002-2007;
  • Labour Party Chief Whip and Spokesperson on Public Enterprise 1997-2002;
  • Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Energy and Communications, 1994-1997;
  • Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, with Special Responsibility for Housing and Urban Renewal, 1993-1994;
  • Elected to Dáil Éireann in 1987
  • Party Spokesperson on Agriculture, 1987-1989; Social Welfare, 1989-1992
  • Member Kildare County Council 1978-1993, 1999-2003
  • Chairperson Kildare County Council 1981-1982
  • Member Kildare County Library Committee, 1975-1989
  • Member Kildare Vocational Education Committee, 1985-1993
  • Member Eastern Health Board, 1978-1985
  • Vice-Chairperson Labour Party 1987-1989

Occupation:

  • Full-time Public Representative;
  • formerly Medical Technologist, Trinity College, Dublin

Memberships:

  • Member Federated Workers' Union of Ireland (now S.I.P.T.U.);
  • Member Gaelic Athletic Association;
  • President Celbridge Soccer Club;
  • President Maynooth Soccer Club;

Family Background:

  • Married to Mary Morris; one daughter and one son

Birth Details:

  • Hollymount, Co. Mayo; October 1944

Education:

  • Ballinrobe C.B.S.;
  • Kevin Street College of Technology


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