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Ossian Smyth - Wikipedia

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Ossian Smyth
Smyth in 2021

Minister of State
2020–	Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
2020–	Environment, Climate and Communications
Teachta Dála
In office February 2020 – November 2024
Constituency	Dún Laoghaire

Personal details
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Green Party
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin

Ossian Smyth is an Irish Green Party politician who has served as a Minister of State since July 2020. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 2020 to 2024.^[1]

Smyth holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin.^[2]

Smyth was elected to Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council for the Dún Laoghaire local electoral area at the 2014 local election. He served as Cathaoirleach of the County Council from 2018 to 2019.^[2] He was re-elected to the council at the 2019 local election,^[3] and at the general election in February 2020, he was elected as a TD for Dún Laoghaire.^[4]^[5] Tom Kivlehan was co-opted to Smyth's seat on the County Council.^[6]

Following the formation of a new government of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party, Smyth was appointed as a Minister of State on 1 July 2020.^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10] He was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with responsibility for Public Procurement and eGovernment and Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications with responsibility for Communications and Circular Economy.^[11]^[12]^[13]

He lost his seat at the 2024 general election.

References

^ "Ossian Smyth". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Councillor Ossian Smyth elected Cathaoirleach of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council". DLR. 12 June 2018. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
^ "Local election – 24 May 2019 – Dún Laoghaire LEA" (PDF). Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. 24 May 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 June 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
^ Kelly, Olivia (9 February 2020). "Dún Laoghaire results: Green's Smyth 'overwhelmed' at securing seat". Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
^ "Election 2020: Dún Laoghaire". Irish Times. Dublin. 9 February 2020. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
^ Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council [@dlrcc] (24 February 2020). "At a Special Council Meeting tonight, Councillors co-opted 3 new Councillors following vacancies created by the Dail elections" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 5 June 2021 – via Twitter.
^ "Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (33rd Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 7 July 2020. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
^ "Appointment of Ministers of State" (PDF). Iris Oifigiúil. 2020 (57): 820–821. 17 July 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 November 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ "Government Ministers". Government of Ireland. 22 December 2020. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
^ "Minister of State Appointments". MerrionStreet.ie. 1 July 2020. Archived from the original on 2 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
^ Environment, Climate and Communications(Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2022 (S.I. No. 298 of 2022). Signed on 9 June 2022. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 11 August 2022.
^ "Ossian Smyth". July 2020. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
^ Weckler, Adrian (2 May 2021). "The Sunday Independent". Retrieved 24 May 2021.

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Green Party profile

Political offices
Preceded by Seán Canney as Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment	Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications 2020–present With: Hildegarde Naughton	Incumbent
Preceded by Patrick O'Donovan Kevin "Boxer" Moran	Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform 2020–present With: Patrick O'Donovan	Incumbent

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency

Dáil	Election					Deputy (Party)
21st	1977	David Andrews (FF)	Liam Cosgrave (FG)	Barry Desmond (Lab)	Martin O'Donoghue (FF)	4 seats 1977–1981
22nd	1981		Liam T. Cosgrave (FG)				Seán Barrett (FG)
23rd	1982 (Feb)
24th	1982 (Nov)				Monica Barnes (FG)
25th	1987		Geraldine Kennedy (PDs)
26th	1989		Brian Hillery (FF)	Eamon Gilmore (WP)
27th	1992		Niamh Bhreathnach (Lab)	Eamon Gilmore (DL)	Helen Keogh (PDs)
28th	1997		Mary Hanafin (FF)	Eamon Gilmore (Lab)	Monica Barnes (FG)
29th	2002	Barry Andrews (FF)			Fiona O'Malley (PDs)		Ciarán Cuffe (GP)
30th	2007	Barry Andrews (FF)			Seán Barrett^[a] (FG)		Ciarán Cuffe (GP)
31st	2011	Mary Mitchell O'Connor (FG)	Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP)			4 seats from 2011
32nd	2016	Mary Mitchell O'Connor (FG)	Richard Boyd Barrett (AAA–PBP)	Maria Bailey (FG)
33rd	2020	Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG)	Richard Boyd Barrett (S–PBP)	Cormac Devlin (FF)	Ossian Smyth (GP)
34th	2024	Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG)	Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP–S)	Cormac Devlin (FF)	Barry Ward (FG)

^ Served as Ceann Comhairle in the 31st Dáil from 2011 to 2016 and was returned automatically at the 2016 general election.

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