1. Noel Rock was born on 11 November 1987 and is an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dala for the Dublin North-West constituency from 2016 to 2020.
17 Facts About Noel Rock
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Noel Rock previously served as Chair of the Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government from 2019 to 2020.
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Noel Rock was educated at Our Lady of Victories National Boys' School, Ballymun and St Aidan's CBS in Whitehall.
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Noel Rock attended Dublin City University, where he was the chair of the university's branch of Young Fine Gael.
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Noel Rock remains an active member of Young Fine Gael.
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Noel Rock later interned in Iowa with her 2008 Presidential campaign ahead of the Iowa Caucuses.
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Noel Rock welcomed Clinton to DCU for a speech in 2012.
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Noel Rock has worked as an assistant manager for the Washington Ireland Program and as a press assistant with the European Parliament.
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Noel Rock first ran for a seat on the Dublin City Council in 2009, and was the last candidate deemed to not be elected in his LEA.
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Noel Rock has worked as a secretarial assistant for Catherine Noone, a former Senator on the Industrial and Commercial Panel.
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Noel Rock was elected to the Dail at the 2016 general election.
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Noel Rock proposed a bill to end ticket touting in 2019.
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In 2016, Noel Rock encouraged the Irish government to increase the minimum wage by more than the 10-cent raise recommended by the non-partisan Low Pay Commission.
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In September 2019, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar appointed Noel Rock to become chair of the Oireachtas Housing Committee in place of Maria Bailey, which was seen as significant, as he was the first Fine Gael TD to condemn Bailey at the time.
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Noel Rock chaired the committee until the 2020 general election and oversaw the passage of several important pieces of legislation such as the Housing Bill 2019 as well as authoring the committee's report into the General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019.
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Noel Rock was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2020 Seanad election.
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Noel Rock was the Fine Gael candidate for Dublin North-West at the 2024 general election, and was not elected.