Michael Noonan (Fine Gael)

Michael Noonan

Michael Noonan ( Irish Mícheál Ó Nuanáin , born May 21, 1943 ) is an Irish politician of the Fine Gael and has been a minister several times.

Life

Noonan was elected to the lower house of the Irish Parliament for the first time in the 1981 elections for the 22nd Dáil Éireann for his party .

During the 24th Dáil Éireann he was appointed by Prime Minister ( Taoiseach ) Garret FitzGerald in December 1982 as Minister of Justice for the first time in a government. He held this office until February 1986, when he became Minister of Industry and Trade as part of a cabinet reshuffle. In addition, he became Minister of Energy in January 1987 after a crisis within the coalition government of Fine Gael and Labor Party . In the 1987 elections , the Fine Gael ultimately lost the government majority, so that the FitzGerald government was replaced on March 10, 1987 by a one-party government of the Fianna Fáil under Prime Minister Charles Haughey .

Subsequently, he was opposition spokesman for financial policy. During the 26th Dáil from July 19, 1989 to February 11, 1992, he held the position of Minister of State in the Ministry of the Navy.

When the coalition government of Fiánna Fail and the Labor Party broke on December 15, 1994, he was replaced by the new Prime Minister John Bruton as Minister of Health in the so-called rainbow coalition of Fine Gael, Labor Party and Democratic Left . He held this office until the end of the coalition government on June 26, 1997. He was then again the financial policy spokesman for the opposition.

After Bruton's fall as chairman of Fine Gael, he was succeeded in 2001. However, his party suffered landslide losses in the elections for the 29th Dáil Éireann on May 17, 2002, when it lost 23 of its 54 seats. Noonan drew the consequences from this, resigned as party leader and was replaced as such by Enda Kenny .

Most recently, he was Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts from October 21, 2004 to April 29, 2007 .

From June 2010, as the successor to Richard Bruton , he was again spokesman for the opposition for financial policy.

From March 2011 to June 2017, he was Secretary of the Treasury in the Enda Kenny government.

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