Denis Naughten

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Denis Naughten

Denis Naughten (born April 23, 1973 in Drum , County Roscommon ) is an Irish politician and has been a member of the Dáil Éireann , the lower house of the Irish Parliament, since 1997 .

Naughten attended University College Dublin and later University College Cork. In 1997 he was elected to the Seanad Éireann for the Fine Gael in a by- election. He occupied the seat of his father Liam Naughten, which had become vacant due to his death . This made Denis Naughten the youngest senator in Irish history. After the end of the legislature of the Seanad Éireann, he moved to the Dáil Éireann. In 2002 and 2007 Naughten was re-elected to the Dáil Éireann. Between January 1997 and October 2003 he was a member of Roscommon County Council . There he was replaced by his brother John after his departure in 2003.

Denis Naughten also won a seat in the Dáil Éireann in the elections in 2011. On July 6, 2011, however, he voted against the decision of the ruling coalition, led by his own party, Fine Gael, to close the emergency department of Roscommon County Hospital . He was then expelled from the Fine Gael. On September 13, 2013, he and 6 other MPs who were excluded from the Fine Gael founded the Reform Alliance , a loose alliance of independent MPs. He was re-elected for the Roscommon – Galway constituency in the 2016 Dáil Éireann election.

In the minority government formed after these elections , Naughten was asked by Prime Minister Enda Kenny to take on the post of Minister for Communication, Climate Protection and the Environment, which he continued under his successor Leo Varadkar. On October 11, 2018, he was forced to resign due to his contacts with the chairman of a consortium that had applied for a contract to expand the broadband network in rural Ireland.

Naughten is married and has two children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=774
  2. ^ Naughten votes against Govt on hospital motion , RTÉ News from July 6, 2011.
  3. ^ Naughten votes against Govt in Roscommon Hospital Dáil motion , Irish Examiner, July 6, 2011.
  4. ^ Naughten loses Fine Gael whip , The Irish Times, July 7, 2011.
  5. ↑ FG rebel Naughten ejected from coalition , the Irish Examiner of 7 July 2011
  6. ↑ The politicians formerly known as the Fine Gael rebels are now the Reform Alliance , publisher = TheJournal.ie of September 10, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Naughten, Denis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Drum , County Roscommon