Editing Brendan Howlin (section)

{{Short description|Irish former politician (born 1956)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image         = Brendan Howlin (official portrait) 2020 (cropped).jpg
| caption       = Howlin in 2020
| office        = [[Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland)|Leader of the Labour Party]]
| term_start    = 20 May 2016 
| term_end      = 3 April 2020
| predecessor   = [[Joan Burton]]
| successor     = [[Alan Kelly (politician)|Alan Kelly]]
| office1       = [[Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform|Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform]]
| taoiseach1    = [[Enda Kenny]]
| term_start1   = 9 March 2011
| term_end1     = 6 May 2016
| predecessor1  = New office
| successor1    = [[Paschal Donohoe]]
| office2       = [[Ceann Comhairle#Leas-Cheann Comhairle|Leas-Cheann Comhairle]] of [[Dáil Éireann]]
| 1blankname2   = [[Ceann Comhairle]]
| 1namedata2    = {{Ubl|[[John O'Donoghue (politician)|John O'Donoghue]]|[[Séamus Kirk]]}}
| term_start2   = 26 June 2007
| term_end2     = 9 March 2011
| predecessor2  = [[Séamus Pattison]]
| successor2    = [[Michael P. Kitt|Michael Kitt]]
| office3       = [[Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland)#Deputy leaders|Deputy leader of the Labour Party]]
| leader3       = [[Ruairi Quinn]]
| term_start3   = 13 November 1997
| term_end3     = 25 October 2002
| predecessor3  = Ruairi Quinn
| successor3    = [[Liz McManus]]
| office4       = [[Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage|Minister for the Environment]]
| taoiseach4    = [[John Bruton]]
| term_start4   = 14 December 1994
| term_end4     = 26 June 1997
| predecessor4  = [[Michael Smith (Irish politician)|Michael Smith]]
| successor4    = [[Noel Dempsey]]
| office5       = [[Minister for Health (Ireland)|Minister for Health]]
| taoiseach5    = [[Albert Reynolds]]
| term_start5   = 12 January 1993
| term_end5     = 17 November 1994
| predecessor5  = [[John O'Connell (Dublin politician)|John O'Connell]]
| successor5    = [[Michael Woods (Irish politician)|Michael Woods]]
| office6       = [[Teachta Dála]]
| term_start6   = [[1987 Irish general election|February 1987]]
| term_end6     = [[2024 Irish general election|November 2024]]
| constituency6 = [[Wexford (Dáil constituency)|Wexford]] 
| office7       = [[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]
| term_start7   = 12 February 1983
| term_end7     = 30 February 1987
| constituency7 = [[Nominated members of Seanad Éireann|Nominated by the Taoiseach]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1956|5|9|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Wexford]], Ireland
| death_date    = 
| death_place   = 
| party         = [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] 
| spouse        =
| children      =
| alma_mater    = [[St Patrick's College, Dublin]]
| website       = {{URL|brendanhowlin.ie}}
|}}
'''Brendan Howlin''' (born 9 May 1956) is an Irish former [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] politician who served as [[Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland)|Leader of the Labour Party]] from 2016 to 2020, [[Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform|Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform]] from 2011 to 2016, [[Ceann Comhairle#Leas-Cheann Comhairle|Leas-Cheann Comhairle]] from 2007 to 2011, [[Leader of the Labour Party (Ireland)#Deputy leaders|deputy leader of the Labour Party]] from 1997 to 2002, [[Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage|Minister for the Environment]] from 1994 to 1997 and [[Minister for Health (Ireland)|Minister for Health]] from 1993 to 1994. He was a [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Wexford (Dáil constituency)|Wexford]] constituency from 1987 to 2024. He also served as a [[Seanad Éireann|Senator]] from 1983 to 1987, after being [[Nominated members of Seanad Éireann|nominated by the Taoiseach]].<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Brendan-Howlin.S.1983-02-23/|title=Brendan Howlin|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=12 June 2008|archive-date=8 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108184420/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Brendan-Howlin.S.1983-02-23|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=LabProfile>{{cite web|url=http://www.labour.ie/brendanhowlin/|title=Profile of Brendan Howlin|work=Labour Party website|access-date=12 June 2008|archive-date=23 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080223191816/http://labour.ie/brendanhowlin/|url-status=live}}</ref>