Emmet Stagg - Biography

Constituency:
Kildare North

Euro Electoral Region:
Ireland Midlands North West

Electoral Status:
Emmet is currently .

Home Address
736, Lodge Park
Straffan
Co. Kildare

Tel
Home: 01 6272149

Email
emmet.stagg@votelabour.ie

Political Career:

• Member of Dail 1987-2016
• Appointed to Committee on Procedure and Privileges, June 2011
• Labour Party Chief Whip 2007 to Feb. 2016
• 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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