--- title: Statement by Seán Haughey TD description: Sean Haughey statement image: https://www.fiannafail.ie/hubfs/SeanHaughey_PR.png --- [ Join ](https://www.fiannafail.ie/join-fianna-fail) [ Donate Now ](https://www.fiannafail.ie/donate-now) Search website: ** Search # Statement by Seán Haughey TD Published on: 06 February 2024 This evening I informed the Fianna Fáil organisation in Dublin Bay North of my decision not to contest the next General Election.   Having devoted all my adult life to public service, I have come to the view that now is the right time for me to step down from frontline politics.   Following my first election to Dublin City Council in 1985, it was a tremendous honour to go on to serve as a Senator, a Dáil Deputy, a Minister of State, and as Lord Mayor of Dublin.   I am extremely grateful to my constituents for their loyal support down through the years and wish to thank them for the trust they placed in me to be their representative in Dáil Éireann.   Over the course of my time in politics, I found it enormously fulfilling to be able to give advice and assistance to hundreds of individuals, groups, and organisations in helping them secure the benefits and services to which they were entitled.   I am also proud that I could carry on a family tradition of public service in the constituency dating right back to the 1950s.   I am deeply grateful to my wife Orla, my 4 adult children, my extended family, as well as the many loyal party members and lifelong friends for their unfailing help and encouragement in all my election campaigns.   I remain fully committed to Fianna Fáil as a democratic party, at the centre of Irish political life, advancing a caring social philosophy, and capable of resolving the many and varied problems that now we now face.   -ENDS-  Tags: [Sean Haughey](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/tag/sean-haughey) --- ## **Related news:** [![O’Loughlin welcomes St.Brigid’s Public Holiday](https://www.fiannafail.ie/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Fiona_OLoughlin_FF_KildareSouth-Apr-26-2021-10-24-04-56-PM.jpg)](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/oloughlin-welcomes-st.brigids-public-holiday) January 21, 2022 --- ##### [O’Loughlin welcomes St.Brigid’s Public Holiday](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/oloughlin-welcomes-st.brigids-public-holiday) [![](https://www.fiannafail.ie/hubfs/fianna-theme/icons/arrow-next.svg) ](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/oloughlin-welcomes-st.brigids-public-holiday) [![Level 7 accreditation an important step in professionalising SNA’s - Senator Fiona O’Loughlin](https://www.fiannafail.ie/hubfs/FionaOLoughlin_PR.jpg)](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/level-7-accreditation-an-important-step-in-professionalising-snas-senator-fiona-oloughlin) July 14, 2022 --- ##### [Level 7 accreditation an important step in professionalising SNA’s - Senator Fiona O’Loughlin](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/level-7-accreditation-an-important-step-in-professionalising-snas-senator-fiona-oloughlin) [![](https://www.fiannafail.ie/hubfs/fianna-theme/icons/arrow-next.svg) ](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/level-7-accreditation-an-important-step-in-professionalising-snas-senator-fiona-oloughlin) [![O’Loughlin urges the Department of Health to intervene to address the unsustainable staffing situation in the pharmacy sector](https://www.fiannafail.ie/hubfs/FionaOLoughlin_PR.jpg)](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/oloughlin-urges-the-department-of-health-to-intervene-to-address-the-unsustainable-staffing-situation-in-the-pharmacy-sector) March 25, 2022 --- ##### [O’Loughlin urges the Department of Health to intervene to address the unsustainable staffing situation in the pharmacy sector](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/oloughlin-urges-the-department-of-health-to-intervene-to-address-the-unsustainable-staffing-situation-in-the-pharmacy-sector) [![](https://www.fiannafail.ie/hubfs/fianna-theme/icons/arrow-next.svg) ](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/oloughlin-urges-the-department-of-health-to-intervene-to-address-the-unsustainable-staffing-situation-in-the-pharmacy-sector) [![“Time to Bring Moore Abbey into Public Use”](https://www.fiannafail.ie/hubfs/FionaOLoughlin_PR.jpg)](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/time-to-bring-moore-abbey-into-public-use) February 16, 2026 --- ##### [“Time to Bring Moore Abbey into Public Use”](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/time-to-bring-moore-abbey-into-public-use) [![](https://www.fiannafail.ie/hubfs/fianna-theme/icons/arrow-next.svg) ](https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/time-to-bring-moore-abbey-into-public-use)