- Simon Coveney
Simon Coveney (born 16 June 1972 in Cork) is an Irish politician. He is a member of
Fine Gael , part of theEuropean People's Party .Coveney is a
Teachta Dála for Cork South Central. He was first elected in the October 1998 by-election to succeed his late fatherHugh Coveney , re-elected at the 2002 and 2007 general elections.In the 2007 general election he was returned by the voters to the
Dáil , and as a result stepped down as an MEP, a position he had held since being elected to represent the constituency of Ireland South in the 2004 European Parliament elections, as the 2007 elections brought the end of thedual mandate . He was replaced in the European Parliament byColm Burke .During the three years he spent as an MEP, he held the position of human rights coordinator for the largest political group in the European Parliament (EPP-ED) the
European People's Party and twice authored the Parliament's Annual Report on Human Rights in the World. He also spearheaded the Stop the Traffik campaign at the European Parliament. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Delegation for Relations with the USA and a substitute on the Human Rights Subcommittee, Fisheries Committee, Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and the Delegation for Relations with Iran.ee also
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Families in the Oireachtas External links
* [http://www.kde.ie/patents/statements/coveney.php Coveney's position on the "software patents" directive, before the 2005 second reading]
* [http://www.simoncoveney.ie Personal site]
* [http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=4443 Simon Coveney's electoral history] (ElectionsIreland.org)
* [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sidesSearch/search.do?type=REPORT&language=EN&term=6&author=28118 Coveney authored reports on Human Rights in the World]Navboxes
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