Education
University College Cork.
University College Cork.
He has been a Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Cork South–Central constituency since 2007. He was first elected at the 2007 general election. He has a Commerce degree from University College Cork and is a qualified chartered accountants
He was appointed the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Financial Sector Reform but has since taken the role of Finance spokesperson after the death of Brian Lenihan.
McGrath represented Fianna Fáil in the Oireachtas delegation that met the Bundestag"s Budgetary and European Affairs committees in Berlin in late January 2012.
He was a member of Passage West Town Council from 1999 to 2007, and a member of Cork County Council for the Carrigaline electoral area from 2004 to 2007.