T.D. Dick ROCHE Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and at the Department of Foreign Affairs with responsibility for European Affairs
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| 1978 | Former Public Servant, served in the Departments of Post and Telegraphs, Transport and Power, Finance and in the Department of Economic Planning and Development. |
| won a United Nations Human Rights Fellowship | |
| Appointed College Lecturer in Public Administration and Public Finance at UCD | |
| since 1978 | Member of the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace. Later served as chairman of the Commission. |
| Represented the Irish Government as an official parliamentary observer at the final appeal of the Birmingham Six in the old Bailey, London | |
| Patron of the Irish-East Timor Solidarity Campaign | |
| A past member of the Eastern Health Board, served for a numver of years as chaiman of the Community Care Programm Committee of the Board. | |
| 1984 | elected to the first Greystones Town Commission. |
| 1985 | elected to Wicklow County Council |
| Re-elected to the Council and Town Commission in each election since then. | |
| 1987 | First elected to the Dail Eireann, was re-elected in 1989 and again in 1997. |
| 1992 | Elected to Seanad Eireann |
| Chairman of the All-party Oireachtas Committee on the Strategic Management Initiative, the Committee which oversees the process of reform of the public service | |
| Serves on the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Enterprise and Transport and on the Dail Committee on Procedures and Priveleges. | |
| Former Chairman of the Oireaches Joint Committee on State Sponsored Bodies. Leader of the Irish Observer Delegation to the Assembly of the Western European Union and serves on the Assembly's Presidential Commission. | |
| Serves the constituency of Wicklow on the County Wicklow VEC | |
| A member of the Irish Council of the European Movement |
