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'''Paul Nicholas Gogarty''' (born 20 December 1968) is a former ] ] politician. He was a ] (TD) for the ] constituency from 2002 to 2011.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=http://oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=29&MemberID=1808&ConstID=83|title=Mr. Paul Gogarty|work=Oireachtas Members Database|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> He currently works freelance as a media commentator and journalist and is understood to be recording songs for upcoming album or single release. '''Paul Nicholas Gogarty''' (born 20 December 1968) is a former ] ] politician. He was a ] (TD) for the ] constituency from 2002 to 2011.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=http://oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=29&MemberID=1808&ConstID=83|title=Mr. Paul Gogarty|work=Oireachtas Members Database|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref>


==Early and private life== ==Early and private life==
Gogarty spent the first four years of his life in ], but has mostly lived in ]. He was educated at St Mary's Boys National School and Colaiste Padraig, Lucan. He later went on to study journalism at the ]. As a result of this, Gogarty worked as a journalist and editor before being elected to the ] in 2002. Gogarty spent the first four years of his life in ], but has mostly lived in ].{{fact|date=May 2012}} He was educated at St Mary's Boys National School and Colaiste Padraig, Lucan.{{fact|date=May 2012}} He later went on to study journalism at the ]. As a result of this, Gogarty worked as a journalist and editor before being elected to the ] in 2002.{{fact|date=May 2012}}


==Political career== ==Political career==
===Local politics=== ===Local politics===
Gogarty joined the ] in 1989 as a student.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paulgogarty.com/index.php/about/ Gogarty joined the ] in 1989 as a student.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paulgogarty.com/index.php/about/
|title=Profile of Paul Gogarty TD|work=Paul Gogarty's website|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> He ran unsuccessfully at the ] in the ] area. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1991L&cons=35|title=1991 Local elections – Castleknock|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> Gogarty was first elected at the ] in the Lucan ], topping the poll with 1,238 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1999L&cons=168&sort=first|title=1999 Local elections – Lucan|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> |title=Profile of Paul Gogarty TD|work=Paul Gogarty's website|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> He ran unsuccessfully at the ] in the ] area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1991L&cons=35|title=1991 Local elections – Castleknock|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> Gogarty was first elected at the ] in the Lucan ], topping the poll with 1,238 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1999L&cons=168&sort=first|title=1999 Local elections – Lucan|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref>


===Dáil Éireann=== ===Dáil Éireann===
Gogarty previosuly contested the ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1992&cons=112|title=1992 General election – Dublin West|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> and ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1997&cons=112|title=1997 General election – Dublin West|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> general elections in the ]. He also ran at the ] caused by the death of ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1992B&cons=112%20&ref=115|title=1996 By-election – Dublin West|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> Gogarty previously contested the ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1992&cons=112|title=1992 General election – Dublin West|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> and ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1997&cons=112|title=1997 General election – Dublin West|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> general elections in the ]. He also ran at the ] caused by the death of ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1992B&cons=112%20&ref=115|title=1996 By-election – Dublin West|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref>
At the ] he was elected to the Dáil for the new ] constituency.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2002&cons=95|title=2002 General election – Dublin Mid–West|work=ElectionsIreland.org At the ] he was elected to the Dáil for the new ] constituency.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2002&cons=95|title=2002 General election – Dublin Mid–West|work=ElectionsIreland.org
|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> He was the first Green Party member to be elected in a three-seat constituency. After his election, Gogarty gave up his local council seat, in line with Green Party policy against dual-mandate and was succeeded by the late Fintan McCarthy. At the ], he retained his Dáil seat, taking the second seat in the enlarged constituency.<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=4225|title=Paul Gogarty|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> |accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> He was the first Green Party member to be elected in a three-seat constituency. After his election, Gogarty gave up his local council seat, in line with Green Party policy against dual-mandate and was succeeded by the late Fintan McCarthy. At the ], he retained his Dáil seat, taking the second seat in the enlarged constituency.<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=4225|title=Paul Gogarty|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref>


Following the Green Party's entry to government in 2007, Gogarty was appointed chairman of the ] committee on Education and Science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=EDJ20071108.xml&Ex=All&Page=2|title=Parliamentary Debates|work=Houses of the Oireachtas|date=8 November 2007|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> In 2007, Gogarty unsuccessfully ran for the position of chair in the Green Party, losing to ]. He was education Spokesperson of the Party from 2002 until 2011, developing the Party's "50 Steps to a Better Education System" but resigned for six months over an internal matter in 2009. Following the Green Party's entry to government in 2007, Gogarty was appointed chairman of the ] Committee on Education and Science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=EDJ20071108.xml&Ex=All&Page=2|title=Parliamentary Debates|work=Houses of the Oireachtas|date=8 November 2007|accessdate=19 June 2009}}</ref> In 2007, Gogarty unsuccessfully ran for the position of chair in the Green Party, losing to ]. He was education Spokesperson of the Party from 2002 until 2011, developing the Party's "50 Steps to a Better Education System" but resigned for six months over an internal matter in 2009.{{fact|date=May 2012}}


Gogarty's work in protecting educational investment during a period of cutbacks has been widely reported in the media, including a profile in the Irish Times in November 2010<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/education/2010/1116/1224283400485.html | work=The Irish Times | title=Green who often sees red | date=11 November 2010}}</ref>, where his contribution was recognised by admirers and detractors alike. Locally, he has played a key role in preventing housing at St Edmundsbury, a sensitive area within the Liffey Valley In 2002, 2003 and again in 2008, Paul Gogarty called for the pay of members of the Irish Parliament and Seanad to be cut. In November 2003 he described the decision to raise TDs pay by 13% during the Celtic Tiger era, compared with 6% for pensioners and social welfare recipients as a "urination" on the less well off in society.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2003/1122/1069455445457.html | work=The Irish Times | title=Politicians' pay | date=11 November 2003}}</ref>


On 3 August 2010, Gogarty wrote to the Clerk of the Seanad asking that newspaper claims alleging that Senator ] had supplied phone expenses claims on headed paper belonging to a company which no longer existed be investigated. Gogarty appeared on the RTE Joe Duffy radio show discussing this issue. Following on from the interview and because he had been asked by a number of members of the public why he had not made a formal complaint to the Garda Siochana, Gogarty went into Lucan Garda station the next day and requested a full investigation, suggesting that Callely was either a victim of gross defamation or had been involved in fraud.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0804/callelyi.html|title=Garda Commissioner seeks Callely clarification|work=RTE News|date=4 August 2010}}</ref>
===Controversies===
⚫ ====2009 Swearing incident====
On 11 December 2009, during his contribution<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SLh-1wLIZ8</ref> to a debate in the Dáil on the Social Welfare bill of the ], Gogarty said to ] TD ]: "With all due respect, in the most unparliamentary language, fuck you Deputy Stagg. Fuck you."<ref>
{{cite news
|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1211/politics.html
|title=Gogarty sorry for 'unparliamentary language'
|work=]
|date=11 December 2009
|accessdate=11 December 2009
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.examiner.ie/breakingnews/ireland/government-td-in-foul-mouthed-outburst-in-dail-437918.html
|title=Government TD in foul-mouthed outburst in Dáil
|work=]
|date=11 December 2009
|accessdate=11 December 2009
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/2009/12/11/00006.asp
|title=Vol. 697 No. 5: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages
|work=Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas
|date=11 December 2009
|accessdate=10 December 2010
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite news
|url=http://ryansaylor.com/archives/576
|title=Irish lawmaker drops the F-bomb
|work=Ryan Saylor
|date=12 December 2009
|accessdate=15 December 2009
}}</ref> He immediately made a personal apology to the House for his use of unparliamentary language,<ref>
{{cite news
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8413122.stm
|work=]
|title=Irish MP's 'F-word' sparks review
|date=15 December 2009
|accessdate=22 May 2010
}}</ref> which was criticised by Deputy ], who demanded he be suspended.<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=DAL20091211.xml&Node=H6#H6 |title=Vol. 697 No. 5 Personal Apology by Deputy|date=11 December 2009|accessdate=11 December 2009}}</ref> The incident was referred to a sitting of the Dáil committee on procedure and privileges, when it emerged that "fuck" is not included among the list of forbidden words set out in the ''Salient Rulings of the Chair'', the document which regulates the behaviour and conduct of TDs.<ref>
{{cite news
|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1214/1224260654123.html
|title=Changes expected to Dáil code after use of 'f-word'
|work=]
|date=14 December 2009
|accessdate=6 July 2010
}}</ref> Gogarty later clarified that the outburst was totally unintentional and not premeditated as some had suggested.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEeKkSv7N0w</ref> He also said that the outburst had to be taken in the context of his contribution during the debate that day<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SLh-1wLIZ8</ref> as well as a very turbulent and heated debate the previous night<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9b6VvBpMrc</ref>.


⚫ In November 2010, he brought his 18-month old daughter to a Green Party press conference in which his party's leader ] announced the ] intention to seek a ] early in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/gogarty-defends-bringing-baby-to-briefing-483038.html |title=Gogarty defends bringing baby to briefing |publisher=Irish Examiner |date=24 November 2010 |accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref> The following day, many callers to ] ] radio show criticised his decision to bring his daughter to an important press conference. Gogarty defended his decision by saying that his regular childminder was not available when the press conference was called.<ref>{{cite news|author=Bring them back.. |url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/green-td-attacked-for-bringing-baby-to-briefing-2433065.html?start=2 |title=Green TD attacked for bringing baby to briefing |publisher=Independent.ie |date= 24 November 2010|accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref>
===="Babygate" controversy====

⚫ Gogarty hit headlines again in November 2010, as he brought his 18-month old daughter Daisy to a Green Party press conference in which his party's leader ] announced the ] intention to seek a ] early in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/gogarty-defends-bringing-baby-to-briefing-483038.html |title=Gogarty defends bringing baby to briefing |publisher=Irish Examiner |date=24 November 2010 |accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref> The following day, many callers to ] ] radio show criticised his decision to bring his daughter to an important press conference. Gogarty defended his decision by saying that his regular childminder (the girl's grandmother) was not available when the press conference was called. In national print media, photographs appeared of Gogarty pushing his daughter's buggy through the portico of ] and subsequently holding the child on his lap in the press conference.<ref>{{cite web|author=Bring them back.. |url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/green-td-attacked-for-bringing-baby-to-briefing-2433065.html?start=2 |title=Green TD attacked for bringing baby to briefing |publisher=Independent.ie |date= |accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref>
Gogarty's work in protecting educational investment during a period of cutbacks has been widely reported in the media, including a profile in '']'' in November 2010, which claimed that his contribution was recognised by admirers and detractors alike<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/education/2010/1116/1224283400485.html|work=The Irish Times|title=Green who often sees red|date=11 November 2010}}</ref>. Locally, he has played a role in preventing housing at St Edmundsbury, a sensitive area within the Liffey Valley.{{fact|date=May 2012}}

⚫ ====2009 Swearing incident====
On 11 December 2009, during his contribution<ref name="youtube.com">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SLh-1wLIZ8</ref> to a debate in the Dáil on the Social Welfare bill of the ], Gogarty said to ] TD ]: "With all due respect, in the most unparliamentary language, fuck you Deputy Stagg. Fuck you."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1211/politics.html|title=Gogarty sorry for 'unparliamentary language'|work=]|date=11 December 2009|accessdate=11 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.examiner.ie/breakingnews/ireland/government-td-in-foul-mouthed-outburst-in-dail-437918.html|title=Government TD in foul-mouthed outburst in Dáil|work=]|date=11 December 2009|accessdate=11 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/2009/12/11/00006.asp|title=Vol. 697 No. 5: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages|work=Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas|date=11 December 2009|accessdate=10 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://ryansaylor.com/archives/576|title=Irish lawmaker drops the F-bomb|work=Ryan Saylor|date=12 December 2009|accessdate=15 December 2009}}</ref> He immediately made a personal apology to the House for his use of unparliamentary language,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8413122.stm|work=]|title=Irish MP's 'F-word' sparks review|date=15 December 2009|accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref> which was criticised by Deputy ], who demanded he be suspended.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=DAL20091211.xml&Node=H6#H6 |title=Vol. 697 No. 5 Personal Apology by Deputy|date=11 December 2009|accessdate=11 December 2009}}</ref> The incident was referred to a sitting of the Dáil committee on procedure and privileges, when it emerged that "fuck" is not included among the list of forbidden words set out in the ''Salient Rulings of the Chair'', the document which regulates the behaviour and conduct of TDs.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1214/1224260654123.html|title=Changes expected to Dáil code after use of 'f-word'|work=]|date=14 December 2009|accessdate=6 July 2010}}</ref> Gogarty later clarified that the outburst was totally unintentional and not premeditated as some had suggested.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEeKkSv7N0w</ref> He also said that the outburst had to be taken in the context of his contribution during the debate that day<ref name="youtube.com"/> as well as a very turbulent and heated debate the previous night.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9b6VvBpMrc</ref>


===Loss of seat=== ===Loss of seat===
Gogarty lost his seat at the ], polling 3.47% of the poll and losing his deposit. He conceded defeat at 10:22 a.m. on 26 February after posting on Twitter saying "I concede with good grace".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0226/election_count_live_saturday.html|title=Election Count - Saturday|work=]|date=26 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0226/breaking6.html|title=Green TD Paul Gogarty concedes|date=26 February 2011|work=]|first=Ciara|last=O'Brien}}</ref> Gogarty lost his seat at the ], polling 3.47% of the poll and losing his right to reclaim election expenses. He conceded defeat at 10:22 a.m. on 26 February after posting on Twitter saying "I concede with good grace".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0226/election_count_live_saturday.html|title=Election Count - Saturday|work=]|date=26 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0226/breaking6.html|title=Green TD Paul Gogarty concedes|date=26 February 2011|work=]|first=Ciara|last=O'Brien}}</ref>


==After politics== ==After politics==
In June 2011 Gogarty spent four days filming at the "Charity ICA Bootcamp" in County Louth. The show was broadcast on RTÉ the following August. He raised €5,000 for Pieta House, a suicide prevention and awareness charity<ref>http://gogsyi.com/2011/09/07/charity-ica-bootcamp-loads-of-fun-but-a-drop-in-the-ocean-for-pieta-house/</ref>. In June 2011 Gogarty spent four days filming at the "Charity ICA Bootcamp" in County Louth. The show was broadcast on RTÉ the following August. He raised €5,000 for Pieta House, a suicide prevention and awareness charity.<ref>http://gogsyi.com/2011/09/07/charity-ica-bootcamp-loads-of-fun-but-a-drop-in-the-ocean-for-pieta-house/</ref>

From July to November 2011 Gogarty was involved in season 4 of the ] television series '']'' managing Oughterard's Seamus Ó Máille GAA Club, Galway.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0715/celebritybainisteoir.html|title=RTÉ's Celebrity Bainisteoirs announced|work=]|date=15 July 2011}}</ref> ]'s team beat him in the end, with extra-time being needed in the final for the first time in ''Celebrity Bainisteoir''.<ref>. ''RTÉ Ten''. 7 November 2011.</ref> From July to November 2011 Gogarty was involved in season 4 of the ] television series '']'' managing Oughterard's Seamus Ó Máille GAA Club, Galway.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0715/celebritybainisteoir.html|title=RTÉ's Celebrity Bainisteoirs announced|work=]|date=15 July 2011}}</ref> ]'s team beat him in the end, with extra-time being needed in the final for the first time in ''Celebrity Bainisteoir''.<ref>. ''RTÉ Ten''. 7 November 2011.</ref>
Gogarty has done some work as a freelance journalist and advertises media services under the trading name of Neighbourhood Media.{{fact|date=May 2012}} He is also understood to be recording an album.<ref>http://www.soundcloud.com/hissweetsurprise</ref>


⚫ In an interview with ], Gogarty was reported to have claimed that he was considering changing parties to ] saying that "I haven’t finished with the Greens. I am very much green to the core, but in terms of getting political objectives achieved, I have not made up my mind with whether I will go back into politics, whether the Green Party has a chance to recover or whether we need a strong green element in some other organisation". <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thejournal.ie/paul-gogarty-im-considering-joining-fianna-fail-363123-Feb2012/|title=Paul Gogarty: I’m considering joining Fianna Fáil|work=|date=23 February 2012}}</ref> Gogarty himself, in commenting on this piece clarified that he was asked to run for Fianna Fáil in Oughterard and said "I haven't ruled it out", but denied that this meant he was actively considering running for Fianna Fáil, as the headlines suggested. He also indicated that he was asked to join Fine Gael in 2002. In May 2012 he claimed he was "no longer a member at present" of the Green Party. <ref>. ''paulgogarty.com''. 9 May 2012.</ref>
Gogarty works as a freelance journalist and advertises media services under the trading name of Neighbourhood Media. He has written articles for the Sunday Times and the Irish Independent. He has also appeared as a contributor on RTE's John Murray Show<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thejohnmurrayshow/2011-10-21.html | work=RTÉ News | title=Friday 21st October presented by Kathryn Thomas}}</ref> and the Newstalk Breakfast Show. He writes an occasional personal blog "Gogsy's Roving i".<ref>http://www.gogsyi.com</ref>

⚫ In a recent interview Gogarty claimed that he was considering changing parties to ] saying that "I haven’t finished with the Greens. I am very much green to the core, but in terms of getting political objectives achieved, I have not made up my mind with, whether I will go back into politics, whether the Green Party has a chance to recover or whether we need a strong green element in some other organisation". <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thejournal.ie/paul-gogarty-im-considering-joining-fianna-fail-363123-Feb2012/|title=Paul Gogarty: I’m considering joining Fianna Fáil|work=|date=23 Febraury 2012}}</ref>


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Paul Gogarty
File:Paul Gogarty head shot 2011.jpg
Teachta Dála
In office
May 2002 – February 2011
ConstituencyDublin Mid–West
Personal details
Born (1968-12-20) 20 December 1968 (age 56)
Castlepollard, County Westmeath
NationalityIrish
Political partyGreen Party
Alma materDublin Institute of Technology
Websitewww.paulgogarty.com

Paul Nicholas Gogarty (born 20 December 1968) is a former Irish Green Party politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Mid–West constituency from 2002 to 2011.

Early and private life

Gogarty spent the first four years of his life in Palmerstown, but has mostly lived in Lucan. He was educated at St Mary's Boys National School and Colaiste Padraig, Lucan. He later went on to study journalism at the Dublin Institute of Technology. As a result of this, Gogarty worked as a journalist and editor before being elected to the Dáil in 2002.

Political career

Local politics

Gogarty joined the Green Party in 1989 as a student. He ran unsuccessfully at the 1991 local elections in the Castleknock area. Gogarty was first elected at the 1999 local elections in the Lucan local electoral area, topping the poll with 1,238 votes.

Dáil Éireann

Gogarty previously contested the 1992 and 1997 general elections in the Dublin West constituency. He also ran at the 1996 by-election caused by the death of Brian Lenihan, Snr. At the 2002 general election he was elected to the Dáil for the new Dublin Mid–West constituency. He was the first Green Party member to be elected in a three-seat constituency. After his election, Gogarty gave up his local council seat, in line with Green Party policy against dual-mandate and was succeeded by the late Fintan McCarthy. At the 2007 general election, he retained his Dáil seat, taking the second seat in the enlarged constituency.

Following the Green Party's entry to government in 2007, Gogarty was appointed chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Education and Science. In 2007, Gogarty unsuccessfully ran for the position of chair in the Green Party, losing to Dan Boyle. He was education Spokesperson of the Party from 2002 until 2011, developing the Party's "50 Steps to a Better Education System" but resigned for six months over an internal matter in 2009.

In 2002, 2003 and again in 2008, Paul Gogarty called for the pay of members of the Irish Parliament and Seanad to be cut. In November 2003 he described the decision to raise TDs pay by 13% during the Celtic Tiger era, compared with 6% for pensioners and social welfare recipients as a "urination" on the less well off in society.

On 3 August 2010, Gogarty wrote to the Clerk of the Seanad asking that newspaper claims alleging that Senator Ivor Callely had supplied phone expenses claims on headed paper belonging to a company which no longer existed be investigated. Gogarty appeared on the RTE Joe Duffy radio show discussing this issue. Following on from the interview and because he had been asked by a number of members of the public why he had not made a formal complaint to the Garda Siochana, Gogarty went into Lucan Garda station the next day and requested a full investigation, suggesting that Callely was either a victim of gross defamation or had been involved in fraud.

In November 2010, he brought his 18-month old daughter to a Green Party press conference in which his party's leader John Gormley announced the junior coalition party's intention to seek a general election early in 2011. The following day, many callers to Joe Duffy's Liveline radio show criticised his decision to bring his daughter to an important press conference. Gogarty defended his decision by saying that his regular childminder was not available when the press conference was called.

Gogarty's work in protecting educational investment during a period of cutbacks has been widely reported in the media, including a profile in The Irish Times in November 2010, which claimed that his contribution was recognised by admirers and detractors alike. Locally, he has played a role in preventing housing at St Edmundsbury, a sensitive area within the Liffey Valley.

2009 Swearing incident

On 11 December 2009, during his contribution to a debate in the Dáil on the Social Welfare bill of the 2010 budget, Gogarty said to Labour Party TD Emmet Stagg: "With all due respect, in the most unparliamentary language, fuck you Deputy Stagg. Fuck you." He immediately made a personal apology to the House for his use of unparliamentary language, which was criticised by Deputy Lucinda Creighton, who demanded he be suspended. The incident was referred to a sitting of the Dáil committee on procedure and privileges, when it emerged that "fuck" is not included among the list of forbidden words set out in the Salient Rulings of the Chair, the document which regulates the behaviour and conduct of TDs. Gogarty later clarified that the outburst was totally unintentional and not premeditated as some had suggested. He also said that the outburst had to be taken in the context of his contribution during the debate that day as well as a very turbulent and heated debate the previous night.

Loss of seat

Gogarty lost his seat at the 2011 general election, polling 3.47% of the poll and losing his right to reclaim election expenses. He conceded defeat at 10:22 a.m. on 26 February after posting on Twitter saying "I concede with good grace".

After politics

In June 2011 Gogarty spent four days filming at the "Charity ICA Bootcamp" in County Louth. The show was broadcast on RTÉ the following August. He raised €5,000 for Pieta House, a suicide prevention and awareness charity. From July to November 2011 Gogarty was involved in season 4 of the RTÉ television series Celebrity Bainisteoir managing Oughterard's Seamus Ó Máille GAA Club, Galway. Tony Cascarino's team beat him in the end, with extra-time being needed in the final for the first time in Celebrity Bainisteoir. Gogarty has done some work as a freelance journalist and advertises media services under the trading name of Neighbourhood Media. He is also understood to be recording an album.

In an interview with TheJournal.ie, Gogarty was reported to have claimed that he was considering changing parties to Fianna Fáil saying that "I haven’t finished with the Greens. I am very much green to the core, but in terms of getting political objectives achieved, I have not made up my mind with whether I will go back into politics, whether the Green Party has a chance to recover or whether we need a strong green element in some other organisation". Gogarty himself, in commenting on this piece clarified that he was asked to run for Fianna Fáil in Oughterard and said "I haven't ruled it out", but denied that this meant he was actively considering running for Fianna Fáil, as the headlines suggested. He also indicated that he was asked to join Fine Gael in 2002. In May 2012 he claimed he was "no longer a member at present" of the Green Party.

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