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The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament. [3] It has always contained the whole of County Dublin and the city of Dublin only (with the county defined since 1994 as the counties of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin).
The Electoral Commission sought submissions on a review of European Parliament Constituencies. [5] In a report in November 2023, it recommended that the additional seat be given to the constituency of Midlands–North-West, with the transfer of County Laois and County Offaly from South.
Before the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU, there was a 3-member single transferable vote constituency covering Northern Ireland. The constituencies covering England, Scotland, and Wales changed several times: Between 1979 and 1994, there were 78 first-past-the-post single-member constituencies.
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However, the last candidate elected in Dublin and in South did not take their seats until January 2020, as part of the post-Brexit redistribution of seats. Ireland was allocated an additional seat in 2023 after a pre-election assessment of the parliament composition based on the most recent population figures.
Paschal Donohoe (born 19 September 1974) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister for Finance since January 2025, and previously from 2017 to 2022. [1] He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Central constituency since 2011 and President of the Eurogroup since July 2020.
Constituency Seats Carlow–Kilkenny: 5 Cavan–Monaghan: 5 Clare: 4 Cork East: 4 Cork North-Central: 5 Cork North-West: 3 Cork South-Central: 5 Cork South-West: 3 Donegal: 5 Dublin Bay North: 5 Dublin Bay South: 4 Dublin Central: 4 Dublin Fingal East: 3 Dublin Fingal West: 3 Dublin Mid-West: 5 Dublin North-West: 3 Dublin Rathdown: 4 Dublin ...
The Constituency Commission made changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of MEPs from 12 to 11, due to the accession of Croatia to the European Union. [4] The North-West and East constituencies were abolished. A new 4-seat constituency called Midlands–North-West was created.