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A candidate for Fianna Fáil. View party
ELIMINATED
John Brassil
Party
Constituency
Occupation
TD and pharmacist
Age
55
Biography

Brassil was first elected to Kerry County Council in 1999 and was elected to the Dáil in 2016. He is the Fianna Fáil spokesperson for primary care and community healthcare. He sat on the Future of Healthcare Committee which produced the Sláintecare report in 2017 and the Future of Mental Healthcare Committee in 2018. He is a qualified civil engineer who retrained as a pharmacist in 1994 in Dublin before returning to Kerry to run the family pharmacy business.

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