"David Stanton" is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork East (Dáil Éireann constituency)/Cork East since 1997.

Stanton was born in County Cork. He was educated at St. Colman's Vocational School, Midleton; Sharman Crawford Technical Institute, Cork (city)/Cork and University College Cork where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Mathematics/Mathematical Science. Before entering politics, he was a woodwork and technical drawing teacher and a career guidance counsellor in St. Colman's Community College in Midleton. He is married to Mary Lehane and they have four sons.

Stanton was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the Irish general election, 1997/1997 general election and has been re-elected at every general election since. He was party spokesperson on Social and Family Affairs, and Equality from 2004 to 2007. Prior to this he acted as deputy spokesperson on Education and Science, and spokesperson on Labour Affairs, Consumer Rights and Trade from 1997 to 2002. From 2007 to 2010, he was party Assistant Chief Whip (Dáil Reform) with special responsibility for Disability Issues. In July 2010, he was appointed party spokesperson on Minister for Defence (Ireland)/Defence.

In October 2011, he called for summertime to be extended.

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It's horrible, people are afraid to come here.

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We were just trying to get at the quarterback. We watched a lot of film and (the coaching staff) prepared us well.

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Francisco Partners will provide GXS with the support necessary to acquire other electronic commerce solution companies in the future, as well as attract and retain key talent to accelerate its growth.

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He's trying to divert away attention from his own incompetence. What we're saying is this is a budgetary situation, it's simply a question of doing the sums right, if they did the sums at all.

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Market turmoil is the best possible news for us. The more chaos and uncertainty in the marketplace, the better.

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