Ossian Smyth

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| image = Ossian Smyth, June 2021 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Smyth in 2021

| office = Minister of State

| suboffice = Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform

| subterm = 2020–2025

| suboffice1 = Environment, Climate and Communications

| subterm1 = 2020–2025

| office2 = Teachta Dála

| term_start2 = February 2020

| term_end2 = November 2024

| constituency2 = Dún Laoghaire

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| party = Green Party

| alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin

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Ossian Smyth (born 1971/1972){{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/election-2020-ossian-smyth-green-party-1.4168931|title=Election 2020: Ossian Smyth (Green Party)|work=The Irish Times|date=10 February 2020|access-date=30 December 2024}} is an Irish Green Party politician who served as a Minister of State from July 2020 to January 2025. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 2020 to 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Ossian-Smyth.D.2020-02-08/|title=Ossian Smyth|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=15 February 2020|archive-date=24 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124151441/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Ossian-Smyth.D.2020-02-08/|url-status=live}}

Smyth holds a Bachelor of Arts in computer science from Trinity College Dublin.{{cite web|url=https://www.dlrcoco.ie/en/news/general-news-press-releases/councillor-ossian-smyth-elected-cathaoirleach-dún-laoghaire|title=Councillor Ossian Smyth elected Cathaoirleach of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council|website=DLR|date=12 June 2018|access-date=9 February 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210606175032/https://www.dlrcoco.ie/en/news/general-news-press-releases/councillor-ossian-smyth-elected-cathaoirleach-d%C3%BAn-laoghaire|archive-date=6 June 2021}}

Smyth was elected to Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council for the Dún Laoghaire local electoral area at the 2014 local election. He served as Cathaoirleach of the County Council from 2018 to 2019. He was re-elected to the council at the 2019 local election,{{cite web |url=https://www.dlrcoco.ie/sites/default/files/atoms/files/dun_laoghaire_lea_1.pdf |title=Local election – 24 May 2019 – Dún Laoghaire LEA |publisher=Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council |date=24 May 2019 |access-date=5 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603105638/https://www.dlrcoco.ie/sites/default/files/atoms/files/dun_laoghaire_lea_1.pdf |archive-date=3 June 2019}} and at the general election in February 2020, he was elected as a TD for Dún Laoghaire.{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/d%C3%BAn-laoghaire-results-green-s-smyth-overwhelmed-at-securing-seat-1.4165221 |title=Dún Laoghaire results: Green's Smyth 'overwhelmed' at securing seat |date=9 February 2020 |first=Olivia |last=Kelly |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Dublin |access-date=5 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210605182500/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/d%C3%BAn-laoghaire-results-green-s-smyth-overwhelmed-at-securing-seat-1.4165221 |archive-date=5 June 2021 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/election2020/dun-laoghaire |title=Election 2020: Dún Laoghaire |date=9 February 2020 |newspaper=Irish Times |location=Dublin |access-date=5 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210605183059/https://www.irishtimes.com/election2020/dun-laoghaire |archive-date=5 June 2021 }} Tom Kivlehan was co-opted to Smyth's seat on the County Council.{{cite tweet |user=dlrcc |number=1232044706781179908 |author=Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council |date=24 February 2020 |title=At a Special Council Meeting tonight, Councillors co-opted 3 new Councillors following vacancies created by the Dail elections |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210605195112/https://twitter.com/dlrcc/status/1232044706781179908 |archive-date=5 June 2021}}

Following the formation of a new government of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party, Smyth was appointed as a Minister of State on 1 July 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-07/3/|title=Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (33rd Dáil)|date=7 July 2020|access-date=7 July 2020|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=9 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709181211/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-07/3/|url-status=live}}{{cite journal |title=Appointment of Ministers of State |journal=Iris Oifigiúil |date=17 July 2020 |volume=2020 |issue=57 |pages=820–821 |url=https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2020/july/Ir170720.pdf |access-date=15 November 2021 |archive-date=15 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115153100/https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2020/july/Ir170720.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite web|title=Government Ministers|url=https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/9b5048-government-ministers/|website=Government of Ireland|date=22 December 2020|access-date=4 January 2021|archive-date=7 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807154553/https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/9b5048-government-ministers/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.merrionstreet.ie/en/News-Room/News/Minister_of_State_Appointments.html|title=Minister of State Appointments|access-date=2 July 2020|date=1 July 2020|website=MerrionStreet.ie|archive-date=2 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702091438/https://www.merrionstreet.ie/en/News-Room/News/Minister_of_State_Appointments.html|url-status=live}} He was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with responsibility for Public Procurement and eGovernment and Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications with responsibility for Communications and Circular Economy.{{Cite Irish legislation|type=si|year=2022|number=298|name=Environment, Climate and Communications(Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2022|date=9 June 2022|access-date=11 August 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.ie/en/biography/10ddb-ossian-smyth/|title=Ossian Smyth|date=July 2020 |access-date=24 May 2021|archive-date=24 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524155632/https://www.gov.ie/en/biography/10ddb-ossian-smyth/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/ireland-leadingeurope-in-developing-digital-green-certfor-travelling-between-countries-minister-says-40378931.htm|title=The Sunday Independent|first=Adrian|last=Weckler|date=2 May 2021|access-date=24 May 2021}}

He lost his seat at the 2024 general election.{{cite web|url=https://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=10887|title=Ossian Smyth|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=11 March 2025}} He unsuccessfully contested the 2025 Seanad election for the Dublin University constituency.