Joe Costello TD Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with responsibility for Trade and Development
Joe Costello is a hard-working and committed public representative.
Joe has made a significant contribution to national politics. He has contributed to all major debates in Dáil Éireann. As a member of the Labour Party Front Bench, Joe works closely with Eamon Gilmore and other Labour colleagues seeking a better future for Ireland. He has served as spokesperson on Justice, Education, Defence, European Affairs and Human Rights. He is currently Labour Party Spokesperson on Transport. He has developed a range of policy documents in all of these areas on behalf of the Party.
Health and Education are of major concern to Joe. He has maintained a vigil at the Mater Hospital between 1pm and 2pm every Saturday for the last seven years to highlight the appalling conditions which the sick and the elderly have to endure in the Accident and Emergency units of our hospitals.
Over the years, Joe has worked with residents and community groups on a range of issues including community development, planning, housing, transport, sporting and cultural matters.
As Chairman of the Supply Control Committee of the North Inner City Drugs Task Force, Joe vigorously opposed the drug barons who brought such misery to communities in the North Inner City. In recent years he was to the fore of the successful campaign to close the Head Shops in Dublin.
Joe is always available to listen to people from East Wall to the Navan Road and does his best to deal with the queries and issues as they arise. He lives in Aughrim Street in the heart of the constituency of Dublin Central with his wife Emer, who is a councillor on Dublin City Council and who was Lord Mayor of Dublin for 2009/10.
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