Jan O'Sullivan
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Jan O'Sullivan TD |
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| Minister for Education and Skills | |
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In office 11 July 2014 – 6 May 2016 |
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| Taoiseach | Enda Kenny |
| Preceded by | Ruairi Quinn |
| Succeeded by | Richard Bruton |
| Minister of State for Housing and Planning | |
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In office 20 December 2011 – 11 July 2014 |
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| Taoiseach | Enda Kenny |
| Preceded by | Willie Penrose |
| Succeeded by | Paudie Coffey |
| Minister of State for Trade and Development | |
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In office 10 March 2011 – 20 December 2011 |
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| Taoiseach | Enda Kenny |
| Preceded by | New office |
| Succeeded by | Joe Costello |
| Teachta Dála | |
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Assumed office February 2011 |
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| Constituency | Limerick City |
| Teachta Dála | |
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In office March 1998 – February 2011 |
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| Constituency | Limerick East |
| Senator | |
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In office 12 February 1993 – 20 July 1997 |
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| Constituency | Administrative Panel |
| Personal details | |
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Janice Gale 6 December 1950 Clonlara, Clare, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Other political affiliations |
Democratic Socialist Party (1982–91) |
| Spouse(s) | Paul O'Sullivan |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | |
| Religion | Church of Ireland |
Janice O'Sullivan (née Gale; born 6 December 1950) is an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Education and Skills from 2014 to 2016, Minister of State for Housing and Planning from 2011 to 2014 and Minister of State for Trade and Development in 2011. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 1998, currently for the Limerick City constituency.
O'Sullivan was born in Clonlara, County Clare and educated at Villiers Secondary School, Limerick, where her father was a journalist. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, she took a Higher Diploma in Education at University College Cork. After working as a teacher for a short period of time, she studied as a Montessori teacher while living in Canada. After returning to Ireland, in the late 1970s, O'Sullivan helped to run Limerick's Family planning clinic.
A member of the Church of Ireland, she married a Roman Catholic, Paul O'Sullivan, with whom she has one daughter and one son. She chose to spend time at home while having her children and once they were in school she ran a playgroup in the mornings, spent time with the children in the afternoon and did political work in the evenings.
O'Sullivan entered politics in 1982 by joining the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), a small party founded by Limerick TD Jim Kemmy, who had previously been a member of the Labour Party. There had been no political tradition in her family—her parents had supported different parties—and her choice of party was based on her support for Kemmy's anti-nationalist stance on Northern Ireland, and his advocacy of family planning services and a pro-choice approach to abortion.
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