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Place of Birth: County Waterford, Munster, Ireland
About Paudie Coffey
- Paudie Coffey (born 15 May 1969) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Senator since May 2016, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.
- He previously served as Minister of State for Housing and Planning from 2014 to 2016.
- He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency from 2011 to 2016.He was first elected to Waterford County Council in 1999 for the Suir electoral area, and re-elected in 2004.
- He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2007 general election for the Waterford constituency but was subsequently elected to Seanad Éireann in July 2007 on the Industrial and Commercial Panel.Coffey was elected for the Waterford constituency at the 2011 general election with 9,698 (18.1%) first preference votes.
- On 15 July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State with responsibility for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.
- He lost his seat at the 2016 general election.Coffey was instrumental in the introduction of the Construction Contracts Act 2013.
- The Act regularises payment terms between construction companies, and puts in place a dispute resolution process aimed at reducing days lost and costs on construction projects. He was nominated by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny to the 25th Seanad in May 2016.
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