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{{Short description|Irish politician (1930–2009)}}
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| image         = Justin Keating 1973 (cropped).jpg
| caption       = Keating in 1973
| office        = [[Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment|Minister for Industry and Commerce]]
| taoiseach     = [[Liam Cosgrave]]
| term_start    = 14 March 1973
| term_end      = 5 July 1977
| predecessor   = [[Patrick Lalor]]
| successor     = [[Desmond O'Malley]]
| office2       = [[Teachta Dála]]
| term_start2   = [[1969 Irish general election|June 1969]]
| term_end2     = [[1977 Irish general election|June 1977]]
| constituency2 = [[Dublin County North (Dáil constituency)|Dublin County North]]
| office3       = [[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]
| term_start3   = 27 October 1977
| term_end3     = 8 October 1981
| constituency3 = [[Agricultural Panel]]
| office4       = [[Member of the European Parliament]]
| term_start4   = February
| term_end4     = June 1984
| constituency4 = [[Leinster (European Parliament constituency)|Leinster]]
| term_start5   = January
| term_end5     = February 1973
| constituency5 = [[Oireachtas|Oireachtas Delegation]]
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1930|1|7|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Dublin]], Ireland
| death_date    = {{death date and age|2009|12|31|1930|1|7|df=y}}
| death_place   = [[Ballymore Eustace]], [[County Kildare]], Ireland
| party         = [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]
| spouse        = {{Ubl|{{marriage|Loretta Wine|1953|1991}}|{{marriage|Barbara Hussey|2005}}}}
| father        = [[Seán Keating]]
| mother        = [[May Keating|Mary Walsh]]
| children      = 3
| nationality   = Irish
| education     = [[Sandford Park School]]
| alma_mater    = {{ubl|[[University College Dublin]]|[[University of London]]}}
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'''Justin Pascal Keating''' (7 January 1930 – 31 December 2009) was an Irish [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] politician, broadcaster, journalist, lecturer and [[veterinary surgeon]].<ref name="Former Labour Party Minister dies aged 79"/> In later life he was president of the [[Humanist Association of Ireland]].

Keating was twice elected to [[Dáil Éireann]] and served in [[Liam Cosgrave]]'s cabinet as [[Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment|Minister for Industry and Commerce]] from 1973 to 1977. He also gained election to [[Seanad Éireann]] and was a [[Member of the European Parliament]]. He was considered part of a "new wave" of politicians at the time of his entry to the Dáil.<ref name="Former Labour Party Minister dies aged 79"/><ref name="Ex-Labour minister Keating dies"/>

==Early life==
He was born in [[Dublin]] in 1930, a son of the noted painter [[Seán Keating]]<ref name="Ex-Labour minister Keating dies">In 1942 he was witness to  and profoundly affected by the IRA assassination of Rathfarnham  neighbour and friend Detective Sergeant [[Denis O'Brien (police officer)|Denis O'Brien]], whose killer was subsequently executed largely on the basis of Keating's testimony. 
{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0101/breaking6.htm|title=Ex-Labour minister Keating dies|work=[[The Irish Times]]|date=1 January 2010|access-date=1 January 2010|archive-date=23 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923015817/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ex-labour-minister-keating-dies-1.851202|url-status=live}}</ref> and campaigner [[May Keating]].<ref name=dib/> Keating was educated at [[Sandford Park School]], and then at [[University College Dublin]] (UCD) and the [[University of London]].<ref name=dib>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/keating-justin-pascal-a9740|title=Keating, Justin Pascal|work=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]]|last=Maume|first=Patrick|access-date=14 March 2023}}</ref> He became a lecturer in [[anatomy]] at the UCD veterinary college from 1955 until 1960 and was senior lecturer at [[Trinity College Dublin]] from 1960 until 1965. He was [[RTÉ]]'s head of agricultural programmes for two years before returning to Trinity College in 1967.<ref name="Ex-Labour minister Keating dies"/> While at RTÉ, he scripted and presented ''Telefís Feirme'', a series for the agricultural community,<ref name="Ex-Labour minister Keating dies"/> for which he won a [[Jacob's Awards|Jacob's Award]] in 1966.<ref name="Former Labour Party Minister dies aged 79"/>

==Political career==
In the 1950s and 1960s Keating was a member of the Communist [[Irish Workers' Party]].
Keating was first elected to the Dáil as a [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Dublin County North (Dáil constituency)|Dublin County North]] constituency at the [[1969 Irish general election|1969 general election]].<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2893|title=Justin Keating|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=1 January 2010|archive-date=21 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221232209/http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=2893|url-status=live}}</ref> From 1973 to 1977 he served in the [[Government of the 20th Dáil|National Coalition]] government under [[Liam Cosgrave]] as [[Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment|Minister for Industry and Commerce]].<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Justin-Keating.D.1969-07-02/|title=Justin Keating|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=1 January 2010|archive-date=7 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107010630/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Justin-Keating.D.1969-07-02|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1973 he was appointed a [[Member of the European Parliament]] from the Oireachtas, serving on the short-lived [[List of members of the European Parliament for Ireland, 1973|first delegation]].

During 1975 Keating introduced the first substantial legislation for the development of Ireland's oil and gas. The legislation was modelled on international best practice and intended to ensure the Irish people would gain substantial benefit from their own oil and gas. Under Keating's legislation the state could by right acquire a 50% stake in any viable oil and gas reserves discovered. Production royalties of between 8% and 16% with corporation tax of 50% would accrue to the state. The legislation specified that energy companies would begin drilling within three years of the date of the issue of an exploration license.

He lost his Dáil seat at the [[1977 Irish general election|1977 general election]], but was subsequently elected to [[Seanad Éireann]] on the [[Agricultural Panel]], serving there until 1981.<ref name="Ex-Labour minister Keating dies"/> He briefly served again in the European Parliament from February to June 1984 when he replaced [[Séamus Pattison]].

==Later life and death==
In the aftermath of [[President of Iran]] [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]'s [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel#2005 "World Without Zionism" speech|"World Without Zionism" speech]] in 2005, Keating published an [[op-ed]] in ''The Dubliner'' Magazine, expressing his views on [[Israel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ejpress.org/article/4478 |title=Anti-Israel article angers Irish leaders |work=European Jewish Press |date=6 December 2005 |access-date=1 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091125101516/http://www.ejpress.org/article/4478 |archive-date=25 November 2009 }}</ref> The article started by claiming that "the Zionists have absolutely no right in what they call Israel". Keating then proceeds to explain why he thinks Israel has no right to exist, claiming that the [[Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry|Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars]].

Keating died on 31 December 2009, at age 79, one week before his 80th birthday.<ref name="Former Labour Party Minister dies aged 79">{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0101/keating.html|title=Former Labour Party Minister dies aged 79|date=1 January 2010|access-date=1 January 2010|work=[[RTÉ News]]|archive-date=24 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024060816/http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0101/keating.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Tributes came from the leaders of the Labour Party and [[Fine Gael]] at the time of his death, [[Eamon Gilmore]] and [[Enda Kenny]],<ref name="Former Labour Party Minister dies aged 79"/> as well as former Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach [[John Bruton]].<ref name="Ex-Labour minister Keating dies"/>

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==External links==
*{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/a-man-who-saw-socialism-as-both-essential-and-adaptable-to-change-1996337.html|title=A man who saw socialism as both essential and adaptable to change|author=Michael D. Higgins|author-link=Michael D. Higgins|work=[[Irish Independent]]|date=2 January 2010|access-date=3 January 2010}}
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