constituency nationality party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name otherparty
tipperary south tipperary south irish workers and unemployed action group teachta dála 9 august 1950 february 2011 june 2000 séamus healy
 may 2007 séamus healy league for a workers republic , united left alliance
séamus healy

séamus healy -lrb- born 9 august 1950 -rrb- is an irish politician .
he has been a teachta dála -lrb- td -rrb- for tipperary south since the 2011 general election , having previously held the seat from 2000 to 2007 .
he is part of the clonmel based workers and unemployed action group -lrb- wuag -rrb- which has a number of local representatives on south tipperary county council and clonmel borough council .
he is a former member of the league for a workers republic .
a former hospital administrator , healy was first elected to clonmel borough council in 1985 .
he was elected to the 28th dáil at a by-election on 22 june 2000 .
he was re-elected at the 2002 general election , but lost his seat at the 2007 general election to martin mansergh of fianna fáil .
after losing his dáil seat he returned to serve as councillor in south tipperary for clonmel , being co-opted for pat english , after which he was appointed to various committees such as the local vocational education committee , promotion of the irish language and various water supply committees .
his brother paddy healy served as president of the teachers ' union of ireland and ran unsuccessfully in the seanad elections in 2007 on the nui panel , and in the 1980s ran in the dublin north -- east dáil constituency as an anti h-block candidate .
séamus healy was re-elected to south tipperary county council at the 2009 local elections .
healy won back his seat at the 2011 general election with 21.3 % of the first preference vote .
on 15 december 2011 , he helped launch a nationwide campaign against the household charge being brought in as part of the 2012 irish budget .
