Jon Georg Dale

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Jon Georg Dale
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Minister of Transport and Communications
In office
31 August 2018 – 24 January 2020
Prime MinisterErna Solberg
Preceded byKetil Solvik-Olsen
Succeeded byKnut Arild Hareide
Minister of Agriculture and Food
In office
16 December 2015 (2015-12-16) – 31 August 2018 (2018-08-31)
Prime MinisterErna Solberg
Preceded bySylvi Listhaug
Succeeded byBård Hoksrud
Minister of Justice
Acting[1]
In office
15 March 2019 – 29 March 2019
Prime MinisterErna Solberg
Preceded byTor Mikkel Wara
Succeeded byJøran Kallmyr
State Secretary for the Ministry of Finance
In office
17 October 2014 – 16 December 2015
Prime MinisterErna Solberg
MinisterSiv Jensen
State Secretary for the Ministry of Transport and Communications
In office
16 October 2013 – 17 October 2014
Prime MinisterErna Solberg
MinisterKetil Solvik-Olsen
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Assumed office
1 October 2017
ConstituencyMøre og Romsdal
Deputy Member of Norwegian Parliament
In office
1 October 2009 – 30 September 2017
ConstituencyMøre og Romsdal
Personal details
Born (1984-06-16) 16 June 1984 (age 37)
Dalsfjord, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
Political partyProgress

Jon Georg Dale (born 16 June 1984) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. He served as Minister of Transport and Communications from 2018 to 2020 and Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2015 to 2018. He was also acting Minister of Justice for 14 days in March 2019 after Tor Mikkel Wara went on sick leave.

Background[]

Dale has a right of inheritance to the family farm Dale by Dalsfjorden and is a skilled meat cutter.[2] Outside politics, he was employed in the meat and fish industry, among others in Nortura until 2010, when he was hired as a political adviser in the Progress Party parliamentary caucus.[3]

Career[]

Local politics[]

He served as a member of Volda municipal council from 2003 to 2013 and Møre og Romsdal county council from 2009 to 2011 (having previously been deputy).

Parliament[]

He was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Møre og Romsdal during the terms 2009–2013 and 2013–2017. In total he served during 280 days of parliamentary session, until 2013 when he was appointed as a State Secretary in the Solberg's Cabinet's Ministry of Transport and Communications. He was appointed state secretary at the ministry of finance in 2014, and held said role until 2015.[3][4]

On 3 July 2020, Dale announced that he would not be seeking re-election in the upcoming 2021 election. He expressed that he wanted to enter the business branch, but didn't rule out a future comeback in politics.[5]

Minister of Agriculture and Food[]

Minister of Transport and Communications[]

Dale was appointed minister of transport and communications in a minor reshuffle at the end of August 2018. He succeeded Ketil Solvik-Olsen, who had resigned to join his wife in Birmingham, Alabama, where she had gotten a position at a children's hospital.[6]

In October 2018, Dale supported the move that British Go-Ahead would take over operations on the Sørlandet line. He promised that he would follow developments carefully, and that the big changes on the Norwegian railway led to more railway for the money.[7]

In April 2019, Dale said it would be unnecessary to ban the use of electric scooters, while acknowledging that accidents happen, but that it should not be a valid reason to ban them.[8] Later that month, he brushed of criticism from the Centre Party in regards of his party's stance on tolls. Dale stated that the criticism was nothing new, and noted that the Centre Party supported every legislation for tolls.[9]

In August, Dale reiterated his remarks of banning electric scooters after local politicians in Trondheim decided to strengthen regulation on their use. Local politicians in Oslo also expressed an interest in the regulation, and Dale invited the parts for a meeting. Dale also expressed that a ban and public regulation was not the right solution, and further added that the companies had to come to agreeable solutions with the municipalities. He also attacked the Green Party's criticism that it was the Progress Party in government's fault that Oslo couldn't regulate the use of electric scooters. Dale called the criticism a "completely absurd situation".[10]

In October, Dale stated there was no promises guaranteed in regards to the construction of a double rail line between Råde and Sarpsborg on the Østfold Rail Line. Overall the government concluded that the already established plans for the rail line would not be pursued.[11]

After the Rogfast project was put on hold in November 2019, Dale issued a press statement, encouraging that the project would be implemented, saying "E39 Rogfast is an important project to connect living and working regions in Western Norway, and will be built. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration will therefore turn every stone to find solutions that will cut costs so that the project can be implemented".[12]

In January 2020, about four days before the Progress Party formally withdrew from Solberg's cabinet, Dale summarised the party's tenure within transport, with that they had made clear marks. Four days later, he was succeeded by Knut Arild Hareide as minister of transport and communications.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ "Jon Georg Dale Becomes Acting Justice Minister". SMP.no. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  2. ^ "The first minister from Volda/Ørsta in modern times" (in Norwegian). Møre-Nytt. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Statssekretær Jon Georg Dale (FrP)" (in Norwegian). Government.no. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  4. ^ "Jon Georg Dale" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  5. ^ "Progress Party crown prince Jon Georg Dale is not seeking re-election" (in Norwegian). Dagens Nærlingsliv. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Resigns as transport minister - Jon Georg Dale takes over" (in Norwegian). Sunmørsposten. 30 August 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Dale pleased with British company taking over the Sørlandet line" (in Norwegian). ABC Nyheter. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  8. ^ "The transport minister: -A ban on electric scooters is unnecessary" (in Norwegian). VG. 7 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Dale storms against toll criticism: -The Centre Party dresses like a chameleon" (in Norwegian). Nettavisen. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  10. ^ "The transport minister: -Completely unnecessary to ban electric scooters" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  11. ^ "The government about the Østfold line uncertainty: -We can't promise anything" (in Norwegian). VG. 11 October 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Rogfast put on hold until further notice" (in Norwegian). NRK. 8 November 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  13. ^ "-We have made clear marks within transport" (in Norwegian). Sunmørsposten. 20 January 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
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