Marion Coy lives in Co Galway. She now works on a range of projects in higher education and political policy and chairs the Policy Lab.
She is a former President of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, one of the constituent colleges of the new Atlantic Technological University. She was a member of the Hunt Review that originally recommended the establishment of the Technological University System. She is also involved in the evaluation of higher education quality under the auspices of ENQA in Europe.
She is a member of the Executive Council of Fine Gael and carried out a review of the party’s performance in the 2016 election at the request of the then Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. She chairs the Collins Institute which, for a number of years, developed policy in association with, but independent of, Fine Gael. She also has contributed to political policy discourse in a number of European countries and has represented the Collins Institute at the Martens Centre, the policy think-tank of the EPP.
First elected to Dáil Eireann in 1982, Richard is the Chairperson of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party. He previously served as Minister Communications, Climate Action, and Environment, Minister Education & Skills and Minister Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation.
Councillor in Limerick City, with particular experience in facilitation, through his work with youth and drugs.
Originally from Mallow, Denise is former Constituency Chairperson in Dublin West; she is a qualified accountant, and also completed her Masters in Public Policy. She works for a mental health charity.
Seán is currently Chairperson of Roscommon Galway Constituency Executive; a former President of Macra na Feirme, he is a Civil Engineer, and spent 12 years working in construction, before taking up a position in the bioenergy sector.
Mary is a practising barrister, specialising in Employment and Privacy/Data Protection Law, Compliance and Corporate Governance. She also lectures at third level, and is a director of a company specialising in providing professional management consultancy services to companies in HR, IR, Employment and Data Compliance; she owned and ran a childcare facility in the past, and is a Mentor with the Dublin City Childcare Committee. Mary is our Seanad Spokesperson on Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Privacy Rights.