Background
Wall was born in Castledermot, County Kildare and educated at Castledermot National School and Castledermot Vocational School.
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Jack Wall
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He is a Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Kildare South constituency. In 1993 Wall was nominated to Seanad Éireann. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Territorial Decoration for Kildare South at the 1997 general election, and has been re-elected at each subsequent general election.
He is the chairperson of the Parliamentary Labour Party since May 2007.
On 10 July 2015, he announced that he would not be contesting the 2016 general election.
Politics
He worked as an electrician before entering into local politics in 1991 when he was elected to Athy Town Council and Kildare County Council. He has previously served as party spokesperson for Agriculture, Defence and Arts, Sport and Tourism, and also for Community and Rural Affairs.
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