constituency nationality party office birth_date term_start article_title name
mayo irish fine gael teachta dála 20 january 1972 february 2011 michelle mulherin
 michelle mulherin
michelle mulherin

michelle mulherin -lrb- born 20 january 1972 -rrb- is an irish fine gael politician .
she was elected as a teachta dála -lrb- td -rrb- for the mayo constituency at the 2011 general election .
she was elected to ballina town council in 1999 and has also served as a mayo county councillor from 2004 until her election to dáil Éireann in 2011 .
mulherin unsuccessfully stood for election in the mayo constituency at the 2007 general election .
in march 2011 , mulherin criticised the libyan national transitional council during the 2011 libyan civil war saying that it was an `` internal matter '' and that `` oil was what made libya ` special ' and the external interference from countries such as the us is worrying '' .
mulherin was not disciplined for her comments , which dissented against the official fine gael policy .
several months later in june 2011 she was among a number of backbench fine gael tds who criticised the level of payments being made to the unemployed .
she called for national service to be introduced in order to tackle a `` culture of entitlement '' .
the proposal was criticised by a senior member of fine gael describing the proposal as not `` out of place at a convention of the tea party movement in america '' .
in april 2012 , she contributed to a dáil Éireann debate on the subject of limited abortion .
in her brief contribution , she cited the liberating grace of god and the `` fallen nature '' of all people and claimed that `` fornication , i would say , is probably the single most likely cause of unwanted pregnancies in this country '' .
this was criticised by tds who favoured more access to abortion , including the independent luke ` ming ' flanagan and clare daly , the socialist party representative who had proposed the bill being debated .
in a television interview a few days later , she clarified that by ` fornication ' she had meant ` consensual sex between adults who are not married to each other ' .
in march 2013 mulherin accused youth information site spunout.ie of publishing inappropriate sex education content .
mulherin claimed that the information on the site was `` incredibly regressive '' and said that she would raise the issue of funding for the site with health minister james reilly .
