Paudie Coffey (born 15 May 1969) is an Irish Fine Gael politician, and has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency since February 2011. On 15 July 2014, he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of the Environment with special responsibility for Housing, Planning and Coordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy.He was first elected to Waterford County Council in 1999 for the Suir electoral area, and re-elected in 2004.