Madeleine Taylor-Quinn (born 26 May 1951) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel from 1981 to 1982 and 1992 to 2002 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Clare constituency from 1981 to 1982 and 1982 to 1992.[1]
After her Dáil defeat in 1992, Taylor-Quinn was elected to the Seanad Éireann, again for the Cultural and Educational Panel, which re-elected her in 1997 to the 21st Seanad. She was defeated at the 2002 Seanad elections. She also stood as a Fine Gael candidate at the 2004 European Parliament election, for the North-West constituency, achieving over 22,000 votes in the Clare constituency, which was the highest vote of any candidate in any election in County Clare, but was defeated. She again contested the Clare constituency at the 2007 general election, winning 3,592 first preferences. Her party colleagues Pat Breen and Joe Carey won the Fine Gael seats.
In the Dáil, she has served at various times as her party's spokesperson on Tourism, the Marine and Defence. She has held a number of frontbench positions in the Seanad, including Foreign Affairs, Arts, Culture, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Justice, Law Reform and Defence and also served as deputy opposition leader. She has served as a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Marriage Breakdown, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Women's Rights and the Select Committee on Judicial Separation, on which last she was chair.
Taylor-Quinn was a member of Clare County Council from 1979 to 2009 when she decided to retire from politics. She is a former Mayor of the County Council (2008–2009), and was the first Fine Gael Mayor in Clare. She was also the Fine Gael group leader on the County Council until 2009. She is married to George Quinn, and has two sons.
