Aideen Hayden (born 1 June 1959) is a former Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Senator from 2011 to 2016, after being

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Early life and career

Hayden was born in

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in 1959, but is a native of County Carlow. She moved to

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and attended St Joseph of Cluny Secondary School. Hayden did a Bachelors of Economics and History in

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(1981). She also obtained a PhD in Applied Social Sciences. Hayden qualified as a solicitor and practiced between 1989-2008. She became Chair of Threshold in 1999. She was also a Board Member of the Private Residential Tenancies Board from 2004-2011. She resigned her Board membership when she was appointed to the Seanad. Hayden received a PhD in Housing Policy from University College Dublin in 2014.

Political career

She unsuccessfully contested the 2011 Seanad election for the

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. In May 2011, she was nominated by Taoiseach

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to the

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. She was the Labour Party Seanad Spokesperson on Housing, Children and Youth Affairs and later replaced Senator

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as Labour Whip. She also held the positions of Spokesperson on Finance and Spokesperson on European Affairs. Hayden introduced a private member's motion to establish schemes for distressed mortgage holders which received cross-party support. Hayden was Vice-Chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform. In 2016, she ran for the NUI Panel for the Seanad as an Independent but was not elected. She received the UCD Alumni Award for Social Sciences in 2016.

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Early life and career

Political career

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