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Martin Mansergh, TD

Martin Mansergh
Martin Mansergh, TD

Constituency

Tipperary South

Notes

Minister of State at the Departments of Finance, including special responsibility for the Office of Public Works, and Arts, Sport and Tourism, with special responsibility for the Arts.



'Some of the issues I have been involved with over the years, apart from Northern Ireland, include: inner city renewal (1982): consultations with Churches and others on pro-life amendment: the beginnings of social partnership 1986-87: agricultural policy (mid-1980s): the development of the EU under successive treaties as well as maintenance of Irish neutrality: the expansion of Overseas Development Assistance since 1992: the merits of Fianna Fáil adopting the national minimum wage during the 2002 election: economic and tax strategy, including tax credits: the merits of reinstating the full Christmas bonus to Social Welfare recipients: the merits of public transport investment: historical and cultural projects, like the Pearse family home, the Irish College in Paris, the Boyne battle site, and Cathedral restorations.

"I try to respond helpfully to representations I receive from organisations and individuals North and South, including those from Tipperary. I assisted Noel Davern and local company to secure funding for the Excel Heritage Centre project to go ahead, helped some local schools and sports organisations to access grants, supported restoration of the 1848 Warhouse, Ballingarry, as well as dealing occasionally with individual social welfare and agricultural grants problems.''

Contact

23A Bank Place, Tipperary Town, Tipperary.
Tel: 062-31904 
Fax: 062 33336

Email

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Political Record

Appointed Minister of State, May 2008. Awarded a civic reception, Clonmel, June 2008.
Appointed Vice-Chair of Oireachtas Joint Committee for Finance and the Public Service, September 2007. Member 2002-7.
Elected to Dáil Éireann May 2007 for Tipperary South.
Appointed to the Council of State by President Mary McAleese, 2004.
Member of the National Forum on Europe, and of the British-Irish Interparliamentary Body 2002-8.
Weekly columnist with the Irish Times 2003-6 and monthly with the Sunday Business Post 2002-3.
Elected to Seanad Éireann on the Agricultural Panel after nomination by the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association, 2002.
Member of Post Office Philatelic Advisory Committee, 1999-2008.
Member of the Tax Strategy Group 1997-2002.
Author of The Legacy of History for Making Peace in Ireland (Mercier Press, 2003). Subject of biography by Kevin Rafter, 2002.
Political and Northern Ireland Advisor to three Taoisigh and leaders of Fianna Fáil over 21 years, 1981-2002.
Responsible for dialogue with Sinn Féin leadership and with Church intermediaries, including those in touch with Unionist and Loyalist leaderships, prior to first and second IRA ceasefires.
Worked on text of what subsequently became known as Hume-Adams and in expanded form the Downing Street Declaration.
Member of four-person negotiating team to put together and later review the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats ‘Action Programme for the Millennium’ in 1997.
Author of the paper, which formed the basis of negotiations leading to formation of the Fianna Fáil-Labour Coalition 1992-94.
Member with Noel Dempsey of drafting Committee of Forum for Peace and Reconciliation.
Co-chair of British-Irish Constitutional Sub-Group 1994.
Member of Delegation and of official Steering Group for Good Friday Agreement negotiations.
Conducted discussions with IRSP prior to INLA ceasefire.
Martin has accompanied Taoisigh on visits to the White House and Downing Street. Winner with Fr. Reid and Rev Roy Magee of Tipperary Peace Prize. Awarded a Civic Reception, Tipperary UDC, May 1998.
Entered Department of Foreign Affairs by open civil service competition in 1974. Posted to embassy in Bonn 1975-7. Served in Political Division during Ireland’s first EEC Presidency in 1975.
Promoted First Secretary, 1977, to Energy Section, Economic Division, Department of Foreign Affairs.
Principal Officer, Department of An Taoiseach, January-July 1981. Fianna Fáil Head of Research in opposition from July 1981-March 1982, December 1982 to March 1987 and from December 1994 to June 1997.
Prior to appointment as Minister of State, member of Excel Heritage Board, Tipperary and trustee of Cashel Bolton Library.

Personal Details

Born in England, 1946. Married to Liz with five children. Son of Tipperary-born Irish and Commonwealth historian Nicholas Mansergh and mother Diana. Educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and Christ Church, Oxford (PPE) M.A., D Phil. Degree in politics, philosophy and economics in Oxford, and obtained Doctorate (thesis on 18th c. pre-revolutionary French history). Co-owner with brother of a farm near Tipperary with beef and suckler herd enterprise.

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