Paudie Coffey Politician

Paudie Coffey (born 15 May 1969) is an Irish Fine Gael politician, and has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency since February 2011. On 15 July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of the Environment with special responsibility for Housing, Planning and Coordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy.He was first elected to Waterford County Council in 1999 for the Suir electoral area, and re-elected in 2004. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2007 general election for the Waterford constituency but was subsequently elected to Seanad Éireann in July 2007 on the Industrial and Commercial Panel.Coffey was elected for the Waterford constituency at the 2011 general election with 9,698 (18.1%) first preference votes.On 15 July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State with responsibility for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.