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Introduction
Stephen Donnelly is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Health since June 2020. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wicklow constituency since 2011.
On his election to Dáil Éireann, Donnelly first sat as an Independent deputy. He then co-founded the Social Democrats in 2015, becoming the joint leader of the new party. He left the Social Democrats in 2016 and represented Wicklow as an independent before joining Fianna Fáil in February 2017.
Early life
| Name | Stephen Donnelly |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Age | 47 years |
| Height | 1.75m |
Stephen Donnelly was born on December 14, 1975 (age 47 years) in Delgany, Ireland He is the son of Irish parents and is a graduate of University College Dublin (UCD) with a degree in mechanical engineering. He also worked and studied in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Donnelly moved to London in 2000, where he worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. In 2008, he completed a master’s degree in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He returned to work for McKinsey and Company, in Dublin, before deciding to run for office in 2011.
Political career
Stephen Donnelly entered political life being elected as an Independent TD at the 2011 general election. On 15 July 2015, Donnelly launched the Social Democrats, becoming co-leader along with former Labour Party TD Róisín Shortall and former Independent TD Catherine Murphy.
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Donnelly left the party on 5 September 2016, stating “Some partnerships simply don’t work”. After leaving the Social Democrats, Donnelly spent the next five months as an Independent TD again for Wicklow.
In February 2017, Donnelly announced that he was joining Fianna Fáil. Upon joining, Donnelly said that he believed Fianna Fáil to be “the best team that most closely aligns with my politics who I believe are taking these challenges very seriously”.
During a 2017 radio interview, Donnelly was questioned about a previous newspaper column, in which, after paraphrasing an unnamed person about Fianna Fáil’s perceived problems and “lack of accountability”, Donnelly wrote that he “hate[d] it when the cynics are right”. Donnelly initially said that he did not know where the host was quoting from – later stating: “I stand corrected”.
He was appointed party spokesperson for Brexit. In a Front-Bench reshuffle in March 2018, he was appointed Fianna Fáil spokesperson on health. Donnelly was elected on the 15th count in the Wicklow constituency to the 33rd Dáil in the 2020 general election, although he won fewer votes than when he stood with the Social Democrats three years prior.
In a 2017 interview with Hot Press magazine, Donnelly spoke about smoking cannabis and the use of other drugs. When asked whether he had taken drugs other than cannabis, Donnelly responded: “I have but that’s all the detail I’m going to go into”.
After being announced as a minister in the 2020 cabinet, Donnelly reportedly stood by his 2017 comments, and noted an openness to the liberalization of some drug laws, stating that if “you’re doing something that’s not harming anybody else, it’s hard to see a legitimate role for the State in prosecuting you for it”. A 2020 news article described Donnelly as “broadly supportive” of supervised injection centers and open to making cannabis legal.
As part of the coalition government of the 33rd Dáil, Donnelly was appointed Minister for Health by Taoiseach Micheál Martin on 27 June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland. His tenure to date has resulted in several gaffes, most notably when he compared the danger to children from returning to schools during the pandemic to that of jumping on trampolines.
Stephen Donnelly has been criticized for not being on top of his brief, for floating ideas in the media such as a mooted third change in several weeks to Ireland’s vaccine rollout plan, and during the height of lockdown, querying why his department’s officials weren’t retweeting his tweets.
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On 31 August 2022, Donnelly admitted that he failed to register a rental property in Dublin for three years with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), and only did so after it emerged Fianna Fáil TD Robert Troy had also registered a property late. In a statement, his spokesperson said this was due to “an oversight” and had been corrected online “last week”.
Stephen Donnelly had declared a south Dublin rental property on the Dáil register of members’ interests. On 17 December 2022, he was re-appointed to the same position following Leo Varadkar’s appointment as Taoiseach.
Wife
Stephen Donnelly is currently a married man. He has been married to his wife Susan Levy since 2005. As of April 2023, Donnelly and his wife live in Greystones, County Wicklow, with their three sons. He has a black belt in Taekwondo.
Stephen Donnelly net worth
How much is Stephen Donnelly worth? Stephen Donnelly’s net worth is estimated at around $5 million. His main source of income is from his primary work as a politician. Stephen Donnelly’s salary per month and other career earnings are over $400,000 dollars annually. His remarkable achievements have earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. He is one of the richest and most influential politicians in Ireland. He stands at an appealing height of 1.75m and has a good body weight which suits his personality.
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