Malcolm Noonan

Senator Malcolm Noonan
Noonan in 2025
Senator
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2025
Constituency	Agricultural Panel
Minister of State
2020–2025	Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Teachta Dála
In office February 2020 – November 2024
Constituency	Carlow–Kilkenny
Personal details
Born	September 1966 (age 58)[1] Kilkenny, Ireland
Political party	Green Party

Malcolm Noonan (born September 1966) is an Irish Green Party senator who served as a Minister of State from July 2020 to January 2025, and as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency from February 2020 to November 2024.[2] Noonan was elected as a senator at the 2025 Seanad election for the Agricultural Panel.

Before entering politics, Noonan worked for twenty years as a community and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth. He was a member of Kilkenny County Council for the Kilkenny local electoral area from 2004 to 2020 and was Mayor of Kilkenny from 2009 to 2010. Maria Dollard was co-opted to Noonan's seat on Kilkenny County Council following his election to the Dáil.[3]

In 2011, Noonan contested the leadership of the Green Party. He was a candidate at the Carlow–Kilkenny by-election and at the 2016 general election.[4]

At the 2020 general election, he won a seat in Carlow–Kilkenny, taking the last of five seats on the tenth count.[5] Noonan had proven transfer-friendly, and told The Irish Times, "for the first time, we didn’t have to sell the climate issue this election. Young people were asking us what we were going to do".[6]

On 1 July 2020, he was appointed by the Fianna Fáil–Fine Gael–Green coalition government as Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage with responsibility for Nature, Heritage and Electoral Reform.[7][8][9][10]

References

1. Tim Ryan (2020). Nealon's Guide to the 33rd Dáil and 26th Seanad and the 2019 Local and European Elections. Grand Canal Publishing.
2. "Malcolm Noonan". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
3. "New green party councillor for Kilkenny". www.kclr96fm.com. 20 February 2020. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
4. Noonan, Michael (10 February 2020). "Malcolm Noonan". greenparty.ie. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
5. "Election 2020: Carlow–Kilkenny". The Irish Times. Dublin. 10 February 2020. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
6. Tracey, Michael (10 February 2020) [9 February 2020]. "Carlow-Kilkenny results: Green Party's Malcolm Noonan takes final seat". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
7. "Who are the new junior ministers-All their profiles are here". www.irishtimes.com. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
8. "Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (33rd Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 7 July 2020. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
9. "Appointment of Ministers of State" (PDF). Iris Oifigiúil. 2020 (57): 820–821. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
10. Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 747 of 2020). Signed on 22 December 2020. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 17 March 2021.

External links

• Green Party profile

Political offices
Preceded by John Paul Phelan Damien English as Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government	Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage 2020–2025 With: Peter Burke	Succeeded by Christopher O'Sullivan