Office: | Minister of State |
Suboffice: | Finance |
Subterm: | 1982–1986 |
Suboffice1: | Finance |
Subterm1: | 1981–1982 |
Office2: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start2: | February 1973 |
Term End2: | February 1987 |
Constituency2: | Kildare |
Birth Date: | 9 May 1919 |
Birth Place: | County Kildare, Ireland |
Death Place: | County Kildare, Ireland |
Party: | Labour Party |
Education: | O'Brien Institute |
Joseph Bermingham (9 May 1919 – 11 August 1995)[1] was an Irish Labour Party politician.[2]
Bermingham was born in Castlemitchell, County Kildare. He was educated at the Christian Brothers school in Athy and the O'Brien Institute in Dublin. Bermingham worked as a shopkeeper before being elected in 1967 as a member of Kildare County Council. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Dáil Éireann at the 1969 general election and at a by-election in 1970. He was elected to the 20th Dáil as Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare constituency at the 1973 general election.[3]
After the 1981 general election, Labour and Fine Gael formed a coalition government. Bermingham was appointed by the government to the position of Minister of State at the Department of Finance with responsibility for the Office of Public Works.[4] He served in that post until early 1982 when the government of Garret FitzGerald fell in a vote on the budget. When a new Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition came to power after the November 1982 general election Bermingham returned to same position.[5] He lost that position as part of a reshuffle in February 1986.[6]
Bermingham resigned from the Labour Party in June 1986, which left the government parties in a minority in the Dáil.[7] [8] He did not contest the 1987 general election. He remained active in local politics and was elected to Kildare County Council in 1991 as an Independent.