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Waterford Institute of Technology. University College Dublin.
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Paudie Coffey
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On 15 July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of the Environment with special responsibility for Housing, Planning and Coordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy. 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 (181%) first preference votes.
On 15 July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State with responsibility for Housing, Planning and Company-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.
