Michael McGrath (Irish politician)


Michael McGrath is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform since June 2020. He has been a Teachta Dála for the Cork South-Central constituency since the 2007 general election.

Career

He was a member of Passage West Town Council from 1999 to 2007, and a member of Cork County Council for the Carrigaline electoral area from 2004 to 2007. He has a commerce degree from University College Cork and is a qualified chartered accountant.
His first front-bench appointment was in early 2011 as the Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Financial Sector Reform, but has held the role of Spokesperson for Finance following the 2011 death of Brian Lenihan.
McGrath represented Fianna Fáil in the Oireachtas delegation that met the Bundestag's Budgetary and European Affairs committees, in Berlin in late January 2012. He represented Fianna Fáil in talks on government formation in 2016.