constituency children birth_place nationality party office birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name alma_mater
limerick limerick west labour panel 4 croagh , county limerick , ireland irish fine gael teachta dála senator 8 december 1946 february 2011 june 1997 october 1989 goretti o'callaghan -lrb- died 2009 -rrb- dan neville
 february 2011 june 1997 dan neville university college cork , university of limerick
dan neville

dan neville -lrb- born 8 december 1946 -rrb- is an irish fine gael politician .
he is a teachta dála -lrb- td -rrb- for the limerick constituency .
he previously represented the limerick west constituency .
he was a member of limerick county council from 1985 to 2003 .
due to the abolition of the dual mandate neville stepped down from limerick county council to be replaced by his son tom neville .
neville first stood as a candidate for dáil Éireann at the 1987 general election , when he failed to win a seat .
he did not contest the 1989 general election , but at the subsequent seanad election he won a seat on the labour panel .
he was unsuccessful again at the 1992 general election , but was re-elected at the 1993 election to the 20th seanad .
he finally won a seat in the dáil at the 1997 general election and retained his seat at the 2002 and 2007 general elections .
in the 2011 general election , he was elected for the limerick constituency .
he is president of the irish association of suicidology .
he was party deputy spokesperson on health with special responsibility for mental health from 2010 to 2011 .
he was appointed as chairperson of the fine gael parliamentary party in may 2014 .
on 11 august 2015 , he announced that he would not contest the next irish general election .
