Andrew Doyle

Andrew Doyle (born 2 July 1960) is an Irish Fine Gael politician, and a Teachta Dála (TD) in Dáil Éireann representing the Wicklow constituency. He was elected to Oireachtas as a member of the 30th Dáil on his first attempt at the 2007 general election, and was re-elected to the 31st Dáil at the 2011 general election. He is the Chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

As a young farmer in 1981, he won the Stephen Cullinane Scholarship to New Zealand, where he played rugby in Canterbury. He has been a member of Fine Gael since 1983, and runs the family farm in County Wicklow which has been in the family for 6 generations.

Doyle represented the East Wicklow electoral area on Wicklow County Council from 1999 to 2007, and was Chairman of the Council from 2005 to 2006. He is a member of the Board of St Catherine’s Special School in Newcastle and a member of the Wicklow Joint Policing Committee.

Before becoming Chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, he was party spokesperson on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from July 2010 to March 2011, having previously served as deputy spokesperson on Agriculture with special responsibility for Food and Horticulture from 2007 to 2010.