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'''Brian Joseph Lenihan''' (21 May 1959 &ndash; 10 June 2011) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Fianna Fáil]] politician. He has been a [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Dublin West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin West]] constituency since 1996.<ref name=oireachtas_db>
'''Brian Joseph Lenihan''' (21 May 1959 &ndash; 10 June 2011) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Fianna Fáil]] politician. He had been a [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Dublin West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin West]] constituency since 1996.<ref name=oireachtas_db>
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For his father, see Brian Lenihan, Snr.
Brian Lenihan
TD
Deputy Leader of Fianna Fáil
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 March 2011
Preceded byMary Hanafin
Minister for Finance
In office
7 May 2008 – 9 March 2011
Preceded byBrian Cowen
Succeeded byMichael Noonan
Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform
In office
14 June 2007 – 7 May 2008
Preceded byMichael McDowell
Succeeded byDermot Ahern
Minister of State for Children
In office
19 June 2002 – 14 June 2007
Preceded byMary Hanafin
Succeeded byBrendan Smith
Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 April 1996
ConstituencyDublin West
Personal details
Born (1959-05-21) 21 May 1959 (age 65)
Dublin, Ireland
Political partyFianna Fáil
SpousePatricia Ryan
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
ProfessionBarrister

Brian Joseph Lenihan (21 May 1959 – 10 June 2011) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He had been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since 1996.[1] He served as Minister for Finance from 2008–11, and as Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform from 2007–08.

Early and private life

Lenihan was born in Dublin in 1959. He was educated at Belvedere College, where he was School Captain (i.e. Head Prefect), Trinity College, Dublin (Foundation Scholar, LL.B. (First Class)), Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (LL.M. (First Class)) and was called to the Irish Bar by the Honorable Society of King's Inns.

He began lecturing in law at Trinity College, Dublin in 1984 and in the same year was called to the Irish Bar. From 1992 to 1995 he was a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal and the Garda Síochána Complaints Appeal Board,[2] and in 1997 he became a Senior Counsel.

Lenihan is married to Patricia Ryan, a Circuit Court judge, and they have one son and one daughter.[2]

In December 2009, an Irish television station TV3 reported that Lenihan had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.[3]

Early political career

Lenihan is a member of a famous Irish political dynasty.[4] His father Brian Lenihan, Snr, first elected in 1957,[5] was a cabinet minister for over twenty-five years,[citation needed] Tánaiste,[6] MEP,[5] and a candidate for President in the 1990 election.[citation needed] His grandfather was Patrick Lenihan who followed his son into the Dáil from 1965 until 1970.[5] Lenihan’s aunt Mary O'Rourke was first elected as a TD in 1981,[5] served for a time in the Senate,[5] and is also a former cabinet minister.[citation needed] His brother Conor has been a TD since 1997 and has served as a Minister of State.[5][6] Despite these facts Lenihan has said that he resents any implication that he is a member of the political establishment.[7]

Lenihan first held political office in 1996 when he was asked to stand in the Dublin West by-election caused by the death of his father.[8] Noel Dempsey, who was Fianna Fáil's Director of Elections in the contest, did not expect his party to hold the seat.[9] Lenihan secured 252 more first-preference votes than Joe Higgins of Militant Labour, and was elected on the 11th count.[10] Following his re-election at the 1997 general election[11] Lenihan became chairman of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution. He served in this position until 2002, when he was appointed Minister of State for Children.[citation needed] He had previously been thought of as a potential member of the Cabinet before the 2002 general election.[12]

Lenihan has often been deployed as a representative of government on topical issues or television shows, and is known for giving his own personal opinion on some matters. He was involved in a dispute with the Labour Party over its leader Pat Rabbitte's desire for a presidential election in 2004; Lenihan said the party was "turning the presidency into a political football".[13] He defended the government again in February 2005, this time against Sinn Féin who he suggested were "milking the peace process for political gain".[14] He would later suggest his preference for becoming the Opposition if the alternative was to enter government with Sinn Féin.[15] When three Irishmen fled convictions on terrorism charges they had received in Colombia, the Minister described their return as "most unhelpful to the peace process".[16] Lenihan spoke at the Fianna Fáil Ardfheis in Killarney on 22 October 2005 and at the Ardfheis in Citywest on 24 March 2007.[17][18] Appearing on The Week in Politics in the wake of unfounded allegations published by a number of Sunday newspapers on Liam Lawlor's death in October 2005, Lenihan said Lawlor's legacy would be the setting up of a Press Council to deal with such matters as they arose in future and was also among the politicians who paid tribute to Lawlor in Dáil Éireann.[19][20][21] When other Fianna Fáil ministers were silent, Lenihan stressed as "unthinkable" the acceptance of illegal payments by former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Manchester, a comment highlighted positively by Pat Rabbitte in Dáil Éireann following Ahern's public apology in October 2006.[22] Yet Lenihan denied Brian Cowen was "setting a bad example" following a 2007 Hot Press interview in which the future Taoiseach admitted his student past of smoking cannabis.[15] He was involved in the 2007 negotiations between Fianna Fáil and the Green Party about the latter party entering government.[15]

Minister for Children, 2002–07

In his first term as Minister for Children Lenihan announced a new new news television programme targeting young people, dealt with matters relating to the internet and pedophilia, announced changes to Ireland's adoption laws and increased the numbers of gardaí employed in the Central Vetting Unit which assesses childcare workers.[23][24][25][26] Lenihan retained the post of Minister for Children in 2005 when the government upgraded it to a cross-departmental role allowing all those in government whose job it is to look after the interests of children to work under one aegis.[citation needed] Although not a member of the cabinet, the Minister was allowed to attend cabinet meetings.[citation needed] He was involved in a proposal to outlaw domestic spanking in June 2005.[27] On 25 October 2005, representing the government, he expressed upset at the "repeated failure and gross dereliction of duties" highlighted in the Ferns Report.[28] His senior in the Department of Health and Children Mary Harney sent him in place of her to speak at an Irish Nurses Organisation conference in May 2006.[29] He addressed a United Nations committee on children's rights in September 2006.[30] On 16 October 2006, Lenihan announced that legislation increasing the age of criminal responsibility by five years from 7 to 12 would come into law immediately.[31] Before leaving office in 2007 he announced several new items, including a review of pedophilia and an increase in the number of judges and other officials working with criminal children.[32] He was abused by angry nurses in a disagreement over their working hours at another conference of the Irish Nurses Organisation on 10 May 2007.[33]

Cabinet career, 2007–11

Lenihan has served in the Cabinet since 2007. He was initially Minister for Justice but was promoted to the post of Minister for Finance one year later.

Minister for Justice, 2007–08

After the 2007 general election Fianna Fáil were returned to power as part of a coalition with the Progressive Democrats, the Green Party and some Independents. Lenihan was the only Fianna Fáil TD to be promoted to the cabinet, as Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern,[34] a post which Lenihan's father had held from 1964 to 1968.[citation needed] They are the only father-son pair to have held that office.[citation needed] The post was available due to the loss of previous Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell in the election.[35] Lenihan immediately promised to place the victim of a crime first and stated that a referendum on children's rights would take place.[36] His first function as Minister for Justice was to attend the graduation of newly trained members of the Garda Síochána Reserve on 16 June 2007.[37] As Minister for Justice Lenihan was involved in several high profile deportation cases.[38][39][40]

Minister for Finance, 2008–11

Considered a "close ally" of Brian Cowen, Lenihan was promoted to Minister for Finance following the election of Cowen as Taoiseach on 7 May 2008.[41] His 2006 intervention to assist with the development of emergency legislation when it emerged rapists were being freed from jail was seen as a major factor in his promotion to the Department of Finance.[8] Lenihan's time as Minister for Finance has been dominated by the financial and banking crises which faced Ireland in the late 2000s. He unveiled three government budgets within the space of fourteen months, nationalised Anglo Irish Bank and unveiled the National Asset Management Agency or NAMA.

On 18 September 2008, Lenihan issued an emergency phone call to Director-General of RTÉ Cathal Goan after an edition of radio phone-in programme Liveline, presented by Joe Duffy, led to mass paranoia that Ireland's banking system was on the verge of collapse.[42] The Minister warned in an interview the following day with Economics Editor for RTÉ George Lee that the public need not react "on the basis of unfounded allegations made on radio programmes".[42]

Budget 2009

Further information: [[:Fallout of the 2009 Irish government budget]]

Lenihan delivered the 2009 Budget on 14 October 2008—the budget had been called early due to the worsening economic conditions.[43][44] The controversial measure of removing Medical Cards from most over 70 year olds (by means testing) caused a massive public outcry.[45][46] This caused a backlash against the government and backbench unease; one Fianna Fáil TD, Joe Behan, left the party in protest.[47][48]

Public outcry meant the government had to twice revise the budget in an attempt to satisfy the pensioners and unions, and indeed the backbenchers. Lenihan was not present at the press conference which included Brian Cowen, John Gormley and Mary Harney to announce the removal of minimum wage employees from the 1 per cent income levy and a promise that 95 per cent of senior citizens would keep the medical card.[49]

Second (emergency) Budget 2009 and NAMA

Main articles: Irish emergency budget, 2009 and National Asset Management Agency

On 7 April 2009, Lenihan delivered an emergency budget overriding the measures previously announced, amounting to a further €3.25bn increases in taxes and reductions in spending programmes in the current year, as well as corresponding fiscal changes to future years. Explaining the purpose of the budget changes before the Dáil, he said: "we must stabilise our public finances. Until we show that we can put our own house in order, we cannot expect those who have invested here and who might invest here in the future to have confidence in us".[50]

The emergency budget also saw the announcement of the National Asset Management Agency or NAMA, designed to house banking assets.[51] The Cabinet approved 150 pages of draft legislation outlined by Lenihan at a meeting in late July 2009; it was published later that week.[52][53] In September 2009, Lenihan announced €54 billion would be given by NAMA to Irish banks in exchange for an estimated €77 billion in loans.[54] The legislation enacting NAMA was passed in Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann before being signed by President Mary McAleese during November 2009.[55][56] Lenihan identified nine prospective NAMA board members on 22 December 2009.[57][58]

In February 2010 Brian Cowen defended his claim that the NAMA will increase the supply of credit into the economy despite the International Monetary Fund (IMF) saying it would not lead to any significant increase. “People should contemplate what level of credit accessibility we’d have in this economy without NAMA,” he said. “It’s not just sufficient in itself obviously for credit flow, it’s certainly an important and necessary part of restructuring our banking system, of that there’s no doubt, in terms of improving as a location for funding of banking operations,” said Mr Cowen. He previously said that the Government’s objective in restructuring the banks through NAMA was to “generate more access to credit for Irish business at this critical time”. In September 2009, Lenihan expressed a similar view, saying it would lead to more lending for business and households. Cowen was responding to reports published on 8 February that the IMF had told Lenihan in April 2009 that the NAMA would not lead to a significant increase in lending by the banks.[59] The comments, which appear in internal Department of Finance documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, were made by senior IMF official Steven Seelig who will join the board of NAMA in May 2010. Minutes of a private meeting at the department between Mr Lenihan and IMF officials on 29 April 2009 last state that the “IMF (Mr Seelig) do not believe that Nama will result in significant increase in bank lending in Ireland”. The Government has maintained that NAMA's purchase of bad loans from the banks with State bonds would increase the flow of credit in the economy since the plan was unveiled April 2009. Speaking at the publication of the NAMA legislation in September 2009, Mr Lenihan said it would “strengthen and improve” the funding positions of the banks “so that they can lend to viable businesses and households”. The IMF estimated in their published report the domestic banks would face losses of up to €35 billion, though the department pointed out this would be partly funded from operating profits and provisions already taken against some loan losses.[59]

In July 2010 after the a revised business plan was published it was revealed that it is now predicting a possible profit of €1bn, with the possibility of losses of up to €800m, after an initially projection of more than €4bn in profit. The plan published today updates and revises the interim business plan published in October of last year which was prepared on the basis of information supplied at that time by the five participating institutions (Anglo Irish Bank, AIB, Bank of Ireland, EBS and Irish Nationwide) and in advance of the detailed examination of any of the key loans by NAMA. Minister Lenihan has denied that the Government got its sums wrong on NAMA.[60] The original business plan estimated a profit of €4.8bn based on a rise in assets value of 10%. Today's revised figures say that if they recover the full value of the loans plus 10% it will result in a profit of €3.9bn. NAMA chairman Frank Daly said the plan confirmed that the five institutions covered by NAMA had not disclosed or had been unaware of the extent of the financial crisis afflicting their borrowers. He said the banks had shown 'remarkable generosity' towards their borrowers, adding that NAMA had no intention of maintaining that approach. 'To say the least we are extremely disappointed and disturbed to find that, only months after being led to believe that 40% of loans were income producing, the real figure is actually 25%.

Budget 2010

Main article: Irish budget, 2010

On 9 December 2009, the government budget for 2010 was delivered. Referred to at home and abroad in such terms as "the harshest budget in decades", "the most austere Budget in the history of the State" and "what can only be described as one of the toughest Budgets in the history of the State",[61][62][63] it was marked by pay cuts for the public sector, and social welfare cuts.[64][65] Also announced at the same time was €70 million for survivors of floods which had affected parts of the country.[66] Global investors approved the measures introduced by Lenihan, with Irish government bonds receiving a boost following the Budget.[67]

Citigroup conference call

On October 1, 2010 Lenihan was in a telephone conference with Citigroup when due to a mistake made by Citigroup, the bank's clients were all able to be heard on the line.[68] As the 200-500 investors realised within 2 minutes their lines were not muted, many began to heckle Mr Lenihan.[68] Some traders made what the Telegraph described as "chimp sounds", while another cried out "dive, dive".[68] Another was heard saying "short Ireland" before adding "why not short Citi too?".[68] Another investor on the line stated "this is the worst conference call ever".[69] After 20 minutes, the call was restarted, with the clients now muted.[69]

On 2 October 2010, Lenihan denied that he was heckled, with his spokesperson stating:

A number of media organisations were on the call. None offered a similar analysis to the Telegraph, which was not on the call. At the end of the call, spreads on Irish bonds narrowed which indicated that the 200 investors on the call were reassured.[69][70]

The Department of Finance has stated that the reports were inaccurate, stating: “The Minister was not interrupted as reported by the Telegraph . There was no heckling - indeed participants congratulated the Minister and the NTMA.”[71]

FT Worst Finance Minister in Europe

On 6 December 2010, the Financial Times annual survey of the 19 Eurozone finance ministers, ranked by European economists, named Brian Lenihan as the Eurozone's worst finance minister for the second year in a row.[72][73]

Vanity Fair: Lenihan is "tricky"

The March 2011 issue of Vanity Fair describes Lenihan as "tricky," for allegedly manipulating his meetings with the members of the Dáil so that when they emerge, they are the ones who must announce the bad news about the latest budget cuts and tax hikes to the media (and thus bear the brunt of the anger and blame for the austerity measures). Lenihan's role in post-collapse Ireland is likened in one particularly lurid passage as "normalizing a freak show" and attempting to assure the Irish that they didn't all just see what they saw. Yet, he is also described as "the last remaining Irish politician anywhere near power whose mere appearance does not cause people on the streets of Dublin to explode with either scorn or laughter" because of his perceived innocence and his well-publicized illness. [74][75]

Opposition 2011–present

He was re-elected at the 2011 general election, taking the only Fianna Fáil seat from 47 in the entire capital city.[76]

He is currently the Deputy Leader of Fianna Fáil and party spokesperson on Finance.

April 2011 interview

In an April 2011 interview Lenihan claimed the European Central Bank forced Ireland into taking a bailout and rejected claims by a senior ECB figure that the bank warned Ireland in mid-2010 of the dangers it faced. He has also accused members of the ECB executives of briefing against Ireland and of “betrayal”. Lenihan criticised some of the 17 governing board members of the bank for the “damaging” manner in which they had briefed some media about Ireland. He said, “On the betrayal issue, I did feel that some bank governors should not be speaking out of turn and that only the president should speak for the bank.” The position of the ECB on Ireland’s seeking of assistance was different from that of the European Commission, said Mr Lenihan. “I don’t think the commission were anxious to bounce member states into a programme. “That was my strong impression from my discussions with Commissioner Rehn.” he said, adding that “the ECB clearly subscribed to a different view.” He gave a graphic description of his feelings when the bailout talks were concluded. “I’ve a very vivid memory of going to Brussels on the final Monday to sign the agreement and being on my own at the airport and looking at the snow gradually thawing and thinking to myself, this is terrible. No Irish minister has ever had to do this before.”[77]

Health and lifestyle

When David McWilliams claimed Lenihan ate large doses of raw garlic during the visit to his house and that he said he had developed the habit since becoming Minister for Finance one source said:

It's true he does like eating garlic, but he doesn’t chew it like gum—it’s good for the blood, apparently.[78]

Minister of State Pat Carey also said on radio that Lenihan "constantly chews garlic".[79]

Lenihan was hospitalised on 16 December 2009, complaining of insomnia and a possible hernia.[80] Surgery, described as "a minor procedure that was brought forward", was performed.[81] Leader of the Opposition Enda Kenny wished him well in a speech.[82] On 26 December 2009, TV3 reported that Lenihan had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.[83] The Sunday Times then reported that "a number of authoritative sources" had said the claim was true.[84] Public service broadcaster RTÉ stated that Lenihan had contracted what it described as "a serious condition".[85] The Government Press Secretary stated that the health of a politician is a private affair.[86] The "unwarranted intrusion" by TV3 was met with disapproval—even by opposition politicians; Labour Party deputy leader and Finance Spokesperson Joan Burton offered her condolences: "It's certainly not a departure in the media that I would welcome. I'm really shocked that a story like that could be broadcast at Christmas".[87][88] However the journalist in question who made the disclosure, Ursula Halligan, received support for report from many publications and journalists including the political bi-weekly Village magazine, Ger Colleran, editor of the Irish Daily Star, the Irish Times and the Phoenix magazine, who stated that "If a report of the finance minister facing a serious illness while simultaneously grappling with the biggest financial crisis in the history of the state is not in the public interest, then nothing is". [89]

In a personal statement on 4 January 2010, detailing the precise nature of his illness, Lenihan said he underwent tests prior to Christmas which identified a blockage at the entrance to his pancreas. He said cancerous tissue was identified in the material that had caused the blockage, and he intended to begin treatment for cancer. Having discussed the matter with his doctors and the Taoiseach, he said he will continue on in the finance portfolio and "to fulfil the essential functions of my office".[90]

See also

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Oireachtas
Preceded by Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for Dublin West
1996–present 		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of State for Children
2002–2007 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform
2007–2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Finance
2008–2011 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Deputy Leader of Fianna Fáil
2011–present 		Incumbent

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