Pat Breen
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Pat Breen TD |
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| Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection | |
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Assumed office 20 June 2017 |
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| Taoiseach | Leo Varadkar |
| Preceded by | New office |
| Minister of State for Employment and Small Business |
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In office 19 May 2016 – 20 June 2017 |
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| Taoiseach | Enda Kenny |
| Preceded by | Ged Nash |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
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Assumed office May 2002 |
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| Constituency | Clare |
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Patrick Breen 21 March 1957 Ennis, Clare, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Fine Gael |
| Spouse(s) | Ann McInerney |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Limerick Institute of Technology |
| Website | www |
Patrick Breen (born 21 March 1957) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection since June 2017. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 2011, currently for the Clare constituency. He previously served as Minister of State for Employment and Small Business from 2016 to 2017.
Having been a member of Clare County Council and the Vocational Educational Committee from June 1999 to 2002, Breen was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election. He is the Chairman of the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee and is deputy leader of the Irish Delegation to the Council of Europe.
Breen has previously served as previously the Fine Gael deputy spokesperson on Foreign Affairs with special responsibility for Human Rights and Overseas Development Aid; and deputy spokesperson on Transport and Enterprise, and Enterprise, Trade and Employment with special responsibility for Small Business. He has also served as a member of the Oireachtas Transport Committee, the Privileges and Procedures Committee, the House Services Committee and the Committee on Enterprise and Small Business.
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