Dan is a member of the foundation board of the Adare Community Trust [ACT] and was the first Chairman, when ACT was set up on Tuesday the 28th of March 2017.

He was born in the townland of Kiltannan and attended Kilfinny National School and Adare Christian Brothers Secondary School, where he completed his Leaving Certificate examination. He then went on to third level education at the National Institute of Higher Education (now UL), U.C.C and the Irish Management Institute.
Dan was employed at Shannon Meats Ltd Rathkeale as Personnel and Industrial relations. He was nominated as the employers’ representative to the Employment Appeals Tribunal of the Labour Court where he served for 9 years.

He entered politics when he was elected to Limerick County Council in 1985. Dan was elected to Seanad Eireann (Irish Senate) in1989 and 1992. He introduced three private members bills, decriminalising suicide in the Senate, which the Irish Government finally accepted in 1993. This bill was signed into law by President Mary Robinson in July of the same year.

“This was one of the first steps in Irish society recognising that suicide and mental ill health were serious public health issues. It was the beginning of the long road in removing stigma from suicide, self-harm and mental illness, a journey that continues.” (Dan Neville, Irish
Independent, July 1st 2018).

Dan is a co-founder of the Irish Association of Suicidology which held its foundation meeting and first National conference in 1996 at Dunraven Arms Hotel. He was elected to Dail Eireann in 1997, 2002, 2007and 2011 and represented this constituency with great distinction. He was elected in 2014 by the Fine Gael parliamentary party (T.D’s, Senators and M.E.P’S) as its chairman.