About Marc
I came late to politics. My wife Róisín and I had started our family, and I realised I had a responsibility to my children to safeguard their future. The reality of climate change was becoming more and more evident, and I knew that one day my kids would ask me what I did to prevent it.
I joined the Green Party in 2015. In 2019, I became the first Green ever elected to Waterford City and County Council. I was elected to Dáil Éireann in 2020, and I’ve been working every day since to earn the vote that the people of Waterford entrusted to me in that election.
I’m an educator, a husband, a father to three boys, and Waterford born and bred. It has been my honour to work for my constituency, my country and the wider world since my election.
It has been a challenging time to be a member of government, with the Covid crisis, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, spiralling energy prices across Europe and Israel’s actions in Gaza all looming large.
But even against that difficult context, we’ve delivered for our people, with a robust economy, close to full employment and last year a 6.8% reduction in our Greenhouse Gas emissions.
We’ve delivered for Waterford as well. The three key promises I made in 2020 – the delivery of the 2nd Cath Lab, funding for the North Quays and designation of SETU – all have come to pass.
But there’s so much more to do. We need to push for the capital funding to make our University the institution it promises to be. We need expanded health services to cater to our growing population. We need to firmly anchor Waterford City as the regional capital for the wider Southeast.
And we need to live up to our obligations to our children and their children, to safeguard our climate, to restore and protect the natural world for their future.
I’m excited to continue this work for Waterford, to remain Real Green, but True Blue.
