Joan Burton
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Joan Burton (born 1 February 1949) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Tánaiste and Leader of the Labour Party from 2011 to 2016, Minister of State in the Department of Social Welfare from 1994 to 2014, and Minister of State from 1992 to 1994.
Burton has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since 2002, and before that from 1992 to 1997.
She served as Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1997.
She dropped her seat in the 1997 general election but was re-elected to the Dáil in the 2002 general election.
She served as deputy leader of the Labour Party under Eamon Gilmore from 2007 to 2014.
Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) from 2014 to 2016, and Minister of Social Protection from 2011 to 2016.
Following significant setbacks by the party in the 2016 general election, she resigned as the Labour Party leader in May 2016.
Early life
Burton is a resident of Dublin's Stoneybatter district. As a baby, she was adopted by the Burton family and taken up in Inchicore. Her adopted father worked in the local iron foundry. She received a degree in commerce from St. Gabriel's NS, Cowper Street, and St. Joseph Sisters of Charity Secondary School, Stanhope Street and University College Dublin (UCD). She is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. She has worked as a lecturer in Accountancy at the Dublin Institute of Technology and the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Political career
Burton first ran for office in 1989 as one of two Labour Party candidates in Dublin's Central constituency; she was unable to be elected. She was elected to Dublin County Council in 1991 for the Mulhuddart local electoral area.
Burton was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1992 as a Labour Party member for the Dublin West constituency in the 27th Dáil. She was elected Minister of State at the Department of Social Welfare in the Fianna Fáil-Labour Party coalition, which was established after the 1999 election. She became Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs in early 1995 after the coalition's dissolution and the establishment of a Rainbow Coalition of Fine Gael-Labour-Democratic Left in early 1995, a position she held until the coalition's demise in the 1997 general election.
She voted against Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party in 1997 general election. Burton was re-elected to Fingal County Council in the 1999 local elections, this time winning a seat in the Castleknock local political district. At the 2002 general election, she was re-elected to the Dáil for Dublin West. She was later named Labour Party Spokesperson for Finance. In 2002, she ran for deputy leadership of the party, winning 44% of the first preference vote, but the attempt was unsuccessful.
Burton took over as the Labour Party's deputy leader in September 2007. She was re-elected to represent Dublin West in the 2011 general election, winning the 1st vote with 9,627 votes, and became the first TD in the country to be elected to the 31st Dáil.
Eamon Gilmore, the leader of Labour, lost badly at the 2014 local and European elections; this culminated in his resignation. Burton revealed her candidacy for the leadership to replace him. She defeated Alex White by 78% to 22% on July 4, 2014, defeating him by 78% to 22%. Enda Kenny, the Taoiseach, had Tánaiste on the same day. "The Labour Party will concentrate on social care and rule more with the heart," she said at her election. She was the first female leader of the Labour Party.
Burton appointed the Labour Party cabinet ministers on July 11th, with party deputy Alan Kelly named as Minister of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources, Jan O'Sullivan as Minister of State for Education and Human Resources, and Brendan Howlin as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Burton stayed in her Department of Social Protection during her time as leader and Tánaiste, shielding basic welfare payments, and raising the minimum wage twice.
Despite a Millward Browne poll that predicted she would lose her constituency seat a month before the 2016 general election, Burton polled better than expected and maintained her Dublin West seat.
Burton addressed how women were marginalized from the government negotiation process at the Women in Media conference in April 2016, shortly after elections and negotiations to establish a coalition government. During the campaign that included Freudian interpretations of politicians' body language, she condemned what she called the misogyny and abuse female politicians faced during the campaign, as well as the "vulgar, crude, and demeaning" Late Late Show broadcast, which included Freudian interpretations of politicians' body language.
Following the 2016 general election, Labour's Labour Party returned to opposition in much smaller numbers. During lengthy discussions about government devolution, Burton continued to serve as Tánaiste and Minister for Social Security in an acting capacity. Enda Kenny revealed in the Dáil on May 6th that Frances Fitzgerald would be the next Tánaiste, while Burton's constituency colleague Leo Varadkar resigned from her old job in the Department of Social Protection.
She resigned as Labour Party leader on May 10, 2016, which took effect on May 20, 2016, when Brendan Howlin was elected unopposed.
She lost her seat in the 2020 Irish general election, with her first preference vote down from 15.4% to 4.8 percent.