Anne Rabbitte

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Senator
Anne Rabbitte
File:Newly Elected Senator Anne Rabbitte (cropped).jpg
Rabbitte in 2025
Senator
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 December 2024
ConstituencyNominated by the Taoiseach
Minister of State
2020–2025Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
2020–2024Health
Teachta Dála
In office
February 2016 – November 2024
ConstituencyGalway East
Personal details
Born (1973-10-11) 11 October 1973 (age 52)
Portumna, County Galway, Ireland
PartyFianna Fáil
Spouse
Paddy Callan
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(m. 1997; died 2011)​
Children3
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
Websiteannerabbitte.ie

Anne Rabbitte (born 11 October 1973) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as a member of Seanad Éireann since December 2024. She was a Minister of State from July 2020 to January 2025. She previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Galway East constituency from 2016 to 2024.[1][2]

She was a member of Galway County Council from 2014 for the Loughrea local electoral area until her election to the Dáil in 2016.[3] In May 2016, she was appointed to the Fianna Fáil Front Bench, as Spokesperson for Children and Youth Affairs.[4]

In April 2019, Rabbitte criticised plans to excavate the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, describing it as "a wilful waste of public money", and questioned if the intention was to dig up every cillín (burial ground for stillborn and unbaptised infants) in Ireland.[5]

In May 2019, Rabbitte contested the European Parliament election in Midlands–North-West but was unsuccessful.[3]

Rabbitte was re-elected in Galway East at the 2020 general election. Following the formation of a new government of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party, Rabbitte was appointed as a Minister of State on 1 July 2020.[6][7][8] She was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for Disability.[9][10]

Rabbitte lost her seat at the 2024 general election.[11] She was a nominated member to the 26th Seanad on 10 December 2024 by Taoiseach Simon Harris.[11] She contested the 2025 Seanad election on the Labour Panel, but was not elected. She was a nominated member to the 27th Seanad on 7 February 2025.[12]

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  10. ^ Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 739 of 2020). Signed on 22 December 2020. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 19 January 2021.
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