Pat Gallagher
Pat Gallagher ( Irish : Pádraig Ó Gallchóir ; born March 10, 1948 in Dungloe ) is an Irish politician of the Fianna Fáil (FF) and former member of the European Parliament . His nickname The Cope , which is also mentioned on the official websites of the party and the European Parliament, refers to the Irish consumer cooperative of the same name, which was founded by Gallagher's grandfather.
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After studying trade at the National University of Ireland, Galway , which he finished in 1970, Gallagher worked as a fish exporter until 1982. Since 1979 he has dealt with local politics, in 1981 he was elected for the first time for the FF in the Dáil Éireann , the Irish lower house, to which he belonged until 1997. From 1987 to 1994 he was Minister of State (roughly equivalent to the rank of State Secretary ) for Maritime Affairs and the Gaelic-speaking regions.
In the European elections in 1994 he was elected to the European Parliament , of which he was a member until 2002. Here he was a member of the Committee on Fisheries , the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
In 2002 he gave up his seat in the European Parliament to take up a mandate again in the Dáil Éireann, and he was appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of the Environment. From 2004 he was again minister of state for marine affairs, from 2006 he was minister of state in the transport department, from 2007 in the health ministry, where he was responsible for health care and food safety. After Brian Cowen became the new Irish Prime Minister in May 2008 , Gallagher lost his office as Minister of State.
Instead, he ran again in the European elections in Ireland in 2009 and was re-elected to the European Parliament. Here he replaced Brian Crowley as head of the Fianna Fáil delegation after he had publicly criticized the party's decision to join the liberal European party ELDR and to switch from the national conservative group UEN to the liberal group ALDE .
In the 2009-14 parliamentary term , Gallagher chaired the delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway, the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a member of the Fisheries Committee and the Conference of Delegation Chairs . Gallagher is a deputy on the regional development committee .
After the 2014 European elections , Gallagher left parliament. From 2016 to 2020 he was again a member of the Dáil Éireann .
family
Gallagher has been married to Ann Gillespie since 1989, who, together with her sister Eibhlin, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison in 1974 for conspiracy and violations of the Explosives Act, of which she served about ten years. The background to this was the visit of the two sisters to a house in Manchester in which a homemade bomb exploded. Gillespie always declared that she was innocent. Since the conviction was based to a large extent on an opinion by the expert Frank Skuse, whose erroneous expert opinion had also contributed to the conviction of innocents in other known cases - for example in the case of the Birmingham Six - and who had therefore been given early retirement in 1985, the British said Home Office 2005, according to Gillespies, that it would raise no objection to a retrial. Gillespie refused.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the European Parliament
- ↑ The Sunday Times , November 27, 2005: Gillespie rejects offer to clear name .
Web links
- Pat Gallagher on the Fianna Fáil homepage
- Entry on Pat Gallagher in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
- VoteWatch.eu: Pat Callagher's voting behavior in the European Parliament
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gallagher, Pat |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gallagher, Pat the Cope; Ó Gallchóir, Pádraig (Irish) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish politician (Fianna Fáil), MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dungloe |