Jerry Buttimer

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Senator
Jerry Buttimer
Jerry Buttimer 2014.jpg
Buttimer in 2014
Senator
Assumed office
26 April 2016
In office
July 2007 – February 2011
Constituency Labour Panel
Teachta Dála
In office
February 2011 – February 2016
Constituency Cork South–Central
Personal details
Born (1967-03-18) 18 March 1967 (age 57)
Cork, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Political party Fine Gael
Alma mater St Patrick's College, Maynooth,
University College Cork
Website jerrybuttimer.ie

Jerry Buttimer (born 18 March 1967) is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South–Central constituency at the 2011 general election.[1]

He studied for the priesthood for a number of years at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth as a candidate for the Diocese of Cork and Ross.

He is a former member of Seanad Éireann on the Labour Panel. He was first elected to Cork City Council in 2004. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2007 general election in the Cork South–Central constituency, but was subsequently elected to the Seanad.[2] He was Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs in the 23rd Seanad. He is a former Secondary School teacher and was Director of Adult Education at Ballincollig Community School.

In April 2012, Buttimer came out as gay, the first Fine Gael TD to do so, saying: "I am a TD who just happens to be gay – it is just one little composition of the story that is me and I will continue to be the politician I was yesterday." He is Chair of Fine Gael LGBT.[3]

He was critical of the 2012 boundary commission report, which transferred the areas of Bishopstown and Glasheen from the Cork South–Central constituency to Cork North–Central. Both areas were considered his political base in the constituency.[4] Despite predictions that he would move to Cork North–Central at the next election, he announced in August 2012 that he would contest the next election in Cork South–Central.[5]

He lost his seat at the 2016 general election.[2]

References

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Oireachtas
Preceded by Fine Gael Teachta Dála for Cork South–Central
2011–2016		 Incumbent
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