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Gemma Hussey (Gemma Moran) was born on 11 November, 1938 in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, is an Irish former Fine Gael politician (b. 1938). Discover Gemma Hussey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As Gemma Moran
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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 11 November 1938
Birthday 11 November
Birthplace Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Nationality Ireland

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Who Is Gemma Hussey's Husband?

Her husband is Derry Hussey (m. 1976-2020)

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Gemma Hussey Net Worth

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1938

Gemma Hussey (Moran; born 11 November 1938) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Social Welfare from 1986 to 1987, Minister for Labour from January 1987 to March 1987, Minister for Education from 1982 to 1986, Leader of the Seanad and Leader of Fine Gael in the Seanad from 1981 to 1982.

Hussey was born in Bray, County Wicklow, in 1938.

She was educated at Loreto College, Foxrock and at University College Dublin.

1960

Hussey had a successful career running a language school in the late 1960s and 1970s.

1976

She married Derry Hussey in 1976, and they had 3 children.

1977

She also served as a Senator for the National University from 1977 to 1982.

She was elected by the National University to Seanad Éireann, serving in the upper house of the Oireachtas, from 1977 until 1982.

She sat as an Independent Senator for the first three years, before joining Fine Gael.

1980

The 1980s was a decade of economic crisis and the government was faced with challenges caused by the precarious state of the public finances.

This meant that she had to find ways to reduce the Education budget.

One of her measures was to introduce charges for the school transport system, which proved unpopular.

However, third-level enrolments were increasing rapidly and Hussey secured increased funding for higher education at a time of severe spending cutbacks.

1981

She then served as Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Women's Affairs from 1981 to 1982.

She went on to be the party leader in the Seanad and leader of the Seanad from 1981 to 1982.

1982

She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wicklow constituency from 1982 to 1989.

She was first elected to Dáil Éireann on her second attempt, at the February 1982 general election, as a Fine Gael TD for Wicklow.

Hussey served as Minister for Education in the Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition government of Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald from 1982 to 1986, during which time she was heavily criticised by teachers' unions during a bitter pay strike in 1984.

1986

In 1986, she became Minister for Social Welfare.

FitzGerald considered creating a new ministry for Hussey as Minister for EEC affairs.

However, she did not wish to compete with the Department of Foreign Affairs, and so declined the position.

Always a liberal and a feminist, she took a strongly supportive position on the legalisation of divorce, which was defeated in a referendum in 1986, and frequently suggested that she supported the liberalisation of Ireland's abortion ban.

A member of Fine Gael's liberal wing, which included Monica Barnes, Nuala Fennell, Alan Shatter and Alan Dukes, she was disliked by the conservative wing of the party which included TDs like Oliver J. Flanagan, Alice Glenn and Gerry L'Estrange.

During a meeting with Keith Joseph, British Secretary of State for Education, Joseph boasted to Hussey that he held surgeries once a month, which was considered a high number in Britain.

Hussey responded that she had to do clinics three days every week to hold on to her seat as a TD.

1989

She retired from politics at the 1989 general election.

1990

The book of her cabinet diaries, At the Cutting Edge, published in 1990, was hailed as the most thorough and realistic account of life inside the cabinet in Ireland.

In 1990, she was sharply criticised within her party for suggesting that she might support the Labour Party presidential candidate, Mary Robinson, a feminist, over the official Fine Gael candidate Austin Currie.

Mary Robinson went on to become Ireland's first female President.

An enthusiastic Europhile, Hussey spends a lot of her time now promoting the advancement of women in politics around the European Union.

1997

In the lead-up to the 1997 presidential election, Hussey was mentioned as a possible Fine Gael candidate, and was predicted to do well across Dublin and in her native Wicklow constituency and among supporters of Fine Gael and of the Progressive Democrats.

In the event the party nomination went to Mary Banotti, who lost heavily to Mary McAleese in the election.

2020

Derry Hussey died in 2020.