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Timetable of 2025 Seanad election Deadline Universities Vocational Panel Nominations close 6 December 2024 18 December 2024 ("outside" panel: nominating bodies — civic society groups) 31 December 2024 ("inside" panel: Oireachtas members) Completion of panels — 8 January 2025 Ballot papers distributed 30 December 2024 15 January 2025 Polls close
The 26th Seanad was in office from 2020 to 2025. The 2020 Seanad election followed the 2020 general election to the 33rd Dáil on 8 February. The Constitution of Ireland required a general election for Seanad Éireann, the senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), to take place no later than ninety days after the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil on 14 January 2020.
Seanad Éireann (/ ˈ ʃ æ n ə d ˈ ɛər ən, ˈ ʃ æ n ə ð / ⓘ SHAN-əd(h) AIR-ən, [3] Irish: [ˈʃan̪ˠəd̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]; "Senate of Ireland") is the senate of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature), which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann (defined as the house of representatives
The final 11 Seanad seats are appointed by Taoiseach Micheal Martin. Senators debate legislation put forward by the Government. They can amend Bills and propose their own Bills but cannot prevent ...
The minister is required to make a Seanad by-election order within 180 days after receiving a notice of a vacancy. [5] On 8 March 2024, Minister Darragh O'Brien made an order for the by-election which set the following dates: [1] 22 March 2024: close of receiving nominations; 8 April 2024: ruling on nominations; 15 April 2024: issuing of ballot ...
There are 60 seats in Seanad Éireann, the senate of the Oireachtas (the legislature of Ireland). Its composition is set out in Article 18 of the Constitution of Ireland . This provides for 11 senators to be nominated by the Taoiseach who is appointed next after the general election to Dáil Éireann (Ireland's house of representatives).
It will remain in office until the close of poll for the 28th Seanad. The 33rd Dáil was dissolved on 8 November 2024. On 15 November 2024, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage , Darragh O'Brien , signed orders for the Seanad election, providing 29 January as the deadline for ballots in the university constituencies and 30 ...
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