Noël Browne

Noël Christopher Browne ( Irish: Nollaig Críostóir de Brún; born December 20, 1915 in Waterford, County Waterford, † 23 May 1997 Baile na hAbhann, County Galway) was an Irish politician who for a number of parties as a deputy ( Teachta Dala ) in the lower house ( Dáil Éireann ) was sitting, and was Minister of Health for several years.

Biography

After schooling, he studied medicine and graduated with a Medical Doctor from. He then worked as a general practitioner.

His national political career began in 1969 as the candidate of Dr. Browne dissolved party Clann na Poblachta, for which he was first elected in 1948 to the Members of the House of Commons and the constituency of Dublin South - East represented.

Shortly after his election, he was appointed on 2 February 1948 by the parliamentary leader of the Fine Gael John A. Costello as Taoiseach (Prime Minister ) led coalition government and was in the Minister of Health. On April 11, 1951, he had to because of the so-called " Mother and Child Scheme " scandal to resign, thus contributing not insignificantly to the defeat of the coalition parties in the elections on 30 May 1951.

After he resigned from the Clann na Poblachta, he was elected in 1951 as a non-party member back to MPs in the constituency of Dublin South - East and entered in 1953 for a short period of Fianna Fáil. However, in 1954 he suffered a defeat and was only in 1957 re-elected as independents in the Dáil. In 1958 he was one of the founders of the National Progressive Democrats, and was again chosen for them by the House of Representatives election 1961 in the constituency of Dublin South - East. After the National Progressive Democrats were disbanded, he joined in 1965 unsuccessfully as a non-party.

In 1969 he was again chosen as a candidate of the Irish Labour Party for Members of the House and took there again until 1973, the constituency of Dublin South - East. In 1973, he opted not to run again for the Dáil and was instead on the 1977 he co-founded the Socialist Labour Party (Ireland ), representing the University of Dublin member of the Senate ( Seanad Éireann ). In 1977 he ran again for the House and was elected as a non-party member back to the deputies and first represented the constituency of Dublin ( Artane ) and then as a representative of the Socialist Labour Party from 1981 to 1982 the constituency of Dublin North Central.

In 1982 he gave up another candidate and retired from the Dáil Éireann from.

In 1990 he was proposed by some politicians as a candidate of the Irish Labour Party for the 1990 Presidential election. However, the former party leader Dick Spring held it for many reasons for the unsuitable candidates and instead moved before the professor and long-time Senator Mary Robinson and could enforce this staff proposal also party internally. Disappointed with the non- nomination Browne was in the following years until his death in a significant critic of the ultimately chosen for President Robinson.