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{{Infobox Minister| name =Noel Dempsey, TD| smallimage = Replace this image male.svg| width = 150px| office = Minister for Transport and the Marine (Ireland)| term_start = June 14, 2007| successor =| office2 = [Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources (Ireland)| term_start2 = September 29, 2004, [2007| successor2 = [Eamon Ryan| predecessor3 = [Michael Woods| term_start3 = [June 6, 2002, [2004| primeminister4=| predecessor4 = [Brendan Howlin| term_start4 = [June 26, 1997, [2002[County MeathRepublic of Ireland| death_date =| death_place =| party = Fianna Fáil| nationality = [Republic of Ireland| children =| website =| footnotes =-->Noel Dempsey (; born 6 January, 1953) is a senior Republic of Ireland Fianna Fáil politician. He is currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for Meath West (Dáil Éireann constituency) and Minister for Transport and the Marine (Ireland). Dempsey has previously served as Minister for the Environment and Local Government (1997–2002), Minister for Education & Science (2002–2004) and Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources (2004–2007).

Early & private life Noel Dempsey was born in Trim, County Meath, County Meath in 1953. He was educated locally at Scoil Naomh Brid in Boardsmill and St. Michael’s Christian Brothers in Trim. Dempsey later attended University College Dublin where he was conferred with a Bachelor of Arts degree as well as a diploma in career guidance. He subsequently completed his HDip in Education at St. Patrick’s College in Maynooth and worked as a career guidance teacher for many years.

Dempsey is married to Patricia Rattigan and they have four children – two boys and two girls. He is also a member of the Gaelic Athletic Association and is a keen supporter of the Meath GAA Gaelic football team as well as his local club teams. He has also been a member of Macra na Feirme and Muintir na Tíre.

Early political career Dempsey first became involved in politics in the early 1970s when he joined Ógra Fianna Fáil, the youth wing of the Fianna Fáil political party. He later attended and spoke at the first ever national conference of Ógra. Within three years of this Dempsey was co-opted onto Meath County Council as a Fianna Fáil councillor in 1977. At the time he was the youngest ever member of that authority and he later served as the youngest ever chairman of the council in 1986. Dempsey enhanced his local political profile at this time by also serving as a member of Trim Urban District Council.

Dempsey was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the Irish general election, 1987 as a Fianna Fáil TD for Meath (Dáil Éireann constituency). Shortly after being elected he became a member of the Public Accounts Committee, one of the most high-profile committees in the Dáil. Dempsey was initially a supporter of the Fianna Fáil leader Charles Haughey, however, he became disillusioned with his leadership when he led Fianna Fáil into coalition with the Progressive Democrats following the Irish general election, 1989. He was one of a number of TDs who were vehemently opposed to such a move. As a result of this Dempsey remained on the backbenches.

In September 1991 Dempsey was a key member of the so-called "gang of four" which proposed a motion of no confidence in Charles Haughey as the leader of the party. The other members of the group were Seán Power, Liam Fitzgerald and M.J. Nolan. Dempsey supported Albert Reynolds in his unsuccessful bid to oust Haughey on that occasion. In 1992 Reynolds eventually became party leader and Taoiseach and Dempsey’s loyalty was rewarded by being appointed Minister of State (Ireland) with responsibility as government chief whip. He also took charge of the Office of Public Works. He served in these positions until the resignation of Reynolds as Taoiseach and the collapse of the Fianna Fáil-Labour Party (Ireland) in 1994.

In December 1994 Bertie Ahern became leader of Fianna Fáil as the party moved into opposition. Dempsey was appointed to the Irish Opposition Front Bench as spokesperson on the Environment and Local Government. During this period in opposition he was heavily involved in key election strategies, most notably in the Dublin West by-election which saw Brian Lenihan, Jnr being elected. It was Fianna Fáil’s first by-election victory since 1985.

Cabinet career: 1997–present Minister for the Environment & Local Government Following the Irish general election, 1997 Dempsey was a key player in helping to negotiate a programme for government between Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats. When Bertie Ahern became Taoiseach Dempsey was appointed to the position of Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Ireland). His tenure as minister has been described as one of reform and modernisation, with Frank McDonald of The Irish Times even describing Dempsey as the best holder of the environment portfolio since the position was created.

Some of Dempsey’s major achievements as minister include the introduction of the Local Government Act 2000 which was seen as the most comprehensive reform of local government in Ireland for over a century. One of his best known initiatives was the introduction of a levy on plastic shopping bags, leading to a reduction in the usage of these bags and a serious decrease in the litter problem related to these plastic bags. Dempsey also proposed to end the ‘dual mandate’ whereby a person can serve as a county councillor and a TD at the same time. This proposal, however, led to severe opposition from the Independent TDs who supported the government at the time and had to be deferred. The legislation eventually became law in 2003.

During his tenure as minister Dempsey continued to serve as the Fianna Fáil director of elections. His first major success was the election of Mary McAleese to the position of President of Ireland in 1997. Two years later in 1999 he presided over the most successful local election campaign for the party ever.

Minister for Education & Science Following the re-election of the government in 2002 Dempsey became Minister for Education and Science (Ireland). He took over as minister at a time when one of the teachers unions was extremely dissatisfied with a number of pay issues. These issues were eventually resolved in 2002 shortly after taking office. As Minister for Education, Dempsey was forced into an embarrassing climb down in 2004 on his proposal to re-introduce third-level fees. The move was opposed by the Union of Students in Ireland and by the Progressive Democrats.

Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources Following a cabinet reshuffle in September 2004 Dempsey was appointed Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources (Ireland). During his tenure he oversaw the controversial Corrib gas project. After agreeing to have an independent assessment of the raw Natural gas pipeline planned for Erris, Dempsey employed a firm to carry it out. Only after the report was concluded did it emerge that the firm was half owned by Royal Dutch Shell, a fact which they neglected to relate to the minister. An embarrassed Dempsey was forced to hastily commission another report. His failure to facilitate agreement between Shell and Shell to Sea resulted in the first An Garda Siochana baton-charge of a peaceful protest since Irish independence. Protests at Bellinaboy continue to the present day.

Coming to the end of his tenure at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources and before the reshuffle after the General Election in May 2007 his department persued the resurrection of Digital Terrestrial Television following its failure to be established under the Broadcasting Act 2001 due to unfavourable economic conditions for venture capital around the DTT market in many countries in 2001. First his department invited tenders to build and programme a DTT trial in Dublin and Louth. The failure seemed to lay around a commercial network builder model and the difficulties in creating revenue generation return for such investment and the solution seems to be the involvement of broadcasters in building the networks. An amended piece of legislation amended this model towards a multiple ultiplex operator model and resulted resulted in the Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2007 (No.15 of 2007). A similar model has been successful during the intervening years in the UK and Spain.

To that end his department also established a DTT trial in August 2006 to run for 2 years around Three Rock, Dublin transmitter and Claremont Carn, in County Louth. For more see: Digital terrestrial television in Ireland.

Minister for Transport & the Marine Following the Irish general election, 2007 Dempsey was appointed to his current position of Minister for Transport and the Marine (Ireland).

The future In early 2003 Dempsey revealed his political ambition when he announced that should the position become available he would seek the leadership of the Fianna Fáil party and the position of Taoiseach.

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