Marc MacSharry
Marc MacSharry is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála for Sligo–Leitrim since the 2016 general election. He previously served as a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel from 2002 to 2016.
Following his election to the Seanad in 2002, he was appointed Seanad Spokesperson on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. He was re-elected in 2007 and was appointed Seanad Spokesperson on Finance.
MacSharry was born in Dublin in 1973. He was educated in Sligo and at Castleknock College, Dublin. He is the son of Ray MacSharry, the former Fianna Fáil Minister and European Commissioner. He runs his own estate agent company.
On 31 January 2011, prior to that year's general election, MacSharry was appointed to the Fianna Fáil frontbench by the new party leader Micheál Martin, as Spokesperson on Tourism and Arts. MacSharry was a candidate at the 2011 general election in the Sligo–North Leitrim constituency, but was not elected. He was re-elected to the Seanad in April 2011 and was appointed Fianna Fáil Seanad Spokesperson on Health. His political career to date has included serving as a member of the Forum on Europe, and of Oireachtas committees on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Health, and Finance; he has also served on the Committee of Inquiry into The Banking Crisis and on the Houses of Oireachtas Commission, and is currently a member of the Dáil's Committee of Public Accounts.
