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Councillor David O’Neill represents the Irvine West ward and served as Leader of North Ayrshire Council for three terms between 1999 and 2012. During his time as a North Ayrshire Councillor, Mr O’Neill has also served as a member of NHS Ayrshire & Arran Health Board and as Vice-Chair of Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire. Prior to local government re-organisation in 1996, he was a Member of Cunninghame District Council and chaired the Environmental Health Committee and the Economic Development Committee.
Councillor O’Neill currently sits on the Audit & Scrutiny Committee, the Local Development Plan and the Irvine Locality Planning Partnership.
Councillor O’Neill was elected President of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) in June 2012.
He has no sporting interests and spends far too much time engrossed in local and national politics. Councillor O’Neill worked in the knitwear industry for many years and was a director of a small manufacturing company for 12 years.
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