[1] He first stood for Dáil Éireann at a by-election in March 1965 for the Cork Mid constituency, following the death of the Labour Party TD Dan Desmond.
Creed served on three of the European Parliament's committees: Agriculture, Public Health and the Environment, Regional Policy and Transport.
Fianna Fáil was returned to power at the resulting February 1982 general election, but that government also was short-lived.
When FitzGerald formed a second coalition government after another general election in November 1982, Creed was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Education on 16 December 1982.
He stepped down from the Dáil at the 1989 general election,[1] when his son Michael Creed held the seat for Fine Gael.