1. Nessa Maria Vereker Childers was born on 9 October 1956 and is an Irish former independent politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019.
17 Facts About Nessa Childers
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Nessa Childers is the daughter of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine H Childers and his second wife, Rita Childers.
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Nessa Childers has an Arts and Psychology degree from Trinity College Dublin and a postgraduate diploma from University College Dublin.
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Nessa Childers previously worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice.
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Nessa Childers was elected in 2004 and resigned from her seat in August 2008.
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Between 2009 and 2014, Nessa Childers was a member of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the delegation for relations with Japan.
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Nessa Childers was a substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education.
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Nessa Childers said she had concerns about his suitability given the uncertainty around his role in the Irish Bank Guarantee and a recent serious error in the calculation of the Irish public finances.
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Nessa Childers campaigned unsuccessfully to have former Fianna Fail TD, Minister and European Commissioner Padraig Flynn, stripped of his Commission pension after the Mahon Tribunal, which found him to have received corrupt payments.
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Nessa Childers resigned from the Labour Party itself in July 2013.
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Nessa Childers was a non-attached MEP from 2013 to 2014.
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Nessa Childers noted a reduction in European Parliamentary seats allocated to Irish constituencies, which had fallen from 12 to 11 as a consequence of the accession of Croatia to the European Union.
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Nessa Childers further called for a ban on the placement of election posters on local council-owned poles, but not on the more common eircom poles or Electric Ireland poles.
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In January 2014, Nessa Childers announced that she would switch from the East constituency to the Dublin constituency at the 2014 European Parliament election.
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Nessa Childers was elected for the Dublin constituency at the 2014 European election.
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In 2017, Nessa Childers stated she would not contest the 2019 European Parliament elections.
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Nessa Childers is a member of the Advisory Panel of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025.