Stephen Donnelly (born 14 December 1975) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Health from June 2020 to January 2025.

[5] He left the Social Democrats in 2016, and represented Wicklow as an independent before joining Fianna Fáil in February 2017.

[11] In 2008, he completed a master's degree in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

[12] In October 2012, he addressed Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, in Dáil Éireann, on behalf of the technical group, saying: "€67 billion is being borrowed from the troika, virtually all of which is going into the banks and almost the same amount is being given by the banks to the senior bondholders in terms of forgone losses.

[23] A 2020 news article described Donnelly as "broadly supportive" of supervised injection centres and open to making cannabis legal.

[23] As part of the coalition government of the 33rd Dáil, Donnelly was appointed Minister for Health by Taoiseach Micheál Martin on 27 June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland.

[4] His tenure resulted in several gaffes, most notably when he compared the danger to children from returning to schools during the pandemic to that of jumping on trampolines.

[25][26] He has been criticised for not being on top of his brief, for floating ideas in the media such as a mooted third change in several weeks to Ireland's vaccine rollout plan,[26][27][28] and during the height of lockdown, querying why his department's officials weren't retweeting his tweets.

Donnelly had declared a south Dublin rental property on the Dáil register of members' interests.