"The Economic Development of Ireland"
Neale Richmond, Minister of State for Business, Employment and Retail
Location: Library and Documentation Center / European Documentation Center
Time: Thursday, March 14, 2024, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/
The lecture will be held in English.
Mr. Neale Richmond was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with special responsibility for Business, Employment and Retail and at the Department for Social Protection on 13 January 2023.
Prior to his appointment as Minister of State, he was elected as a TD for Dublin Rathdown in the 2020 General Election. In April 2016, he was elected to Seanad Éireann, on the Labor Panel, where he was Fine Gael spokesman for European affairs and chaired the Seanad's Select Committee on the UK's withdrawal from the EU. He was elected to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for the first time in 2009 and for the second time in 2014. In addition, as a member of the EU Committee of the Regions, he was the leader of the Irish delegation.
He graduated from UCD with a BA in History and an MA in Politics.