Dan Neville was elected to Dail Eireann 1997 and re-elected in May 2002 and in June 2007. Deputy Neville was appointed Fine Gael Spokesperson on Mental Health in 2007 and is a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, a member of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, a member of the Joint Commitee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children, a member of the Joint Oireachtas Administration Committee and a member of the Dail Committee on Procedure and Privillages
First elected to Dail Eireann in 1997, Dan was Fine Gael spokesperson on Children and until 2000, when he became deputy spkesperson on Health, Children and Mental Health Issues, a post he held until February 2001. Dan was then appointed to the Fine Gael Health Cabinet. He was also a member of the Joint Oireachtas Commitee on Health and Children.
He was first elected to the Senate (Seanad Eirann) on the Labour Panel in 1989 and was Fine Gael Deputy Leader in the Senate and spokesman on Justice and Law Reform between 1992 and 1997. He was a candidate in the general elections of 1987 and 1992. He was a member of Limerick County Council from 1985 to 2003 and a member of the Mid-Western Health Board from 1992 to 1999. He was also member of the General Council of County Councils and the Association of Health Boards in Ireland from 1992 to 1999.
From 2002 to 2007 he was Deputy Chief Whip of Fine Gael and was a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children and a member of the Dail Committee on Procedure and Privilages
Deputy Neville is President of the Irish Association of Suicidology, a member of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and is a director of the Irish Palatine Association. He was on the National Economic and Social Form and Project Team on Mental Health and Social Inclusion from 2002 to 2007. In May 2008, he was elected as Chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Sub-committee on Suicide Prevention and in the same month was appointed by Enda Kenny as a member of the National Economic and Social Form and is on the management committee of this body He is a member of the Advisory Board of The College of Psychiatry of Ireland
Dan married Goretti O'Callaghan RGN formally of Dundrum, Co. Tipperary. Goretti passed to eternal reward on 27th January 2009. Dan and Goretti have 4 children, Tom, Maria, Maeve and Danny | 
