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The 26th Seanad has been in office since June 2020. 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, the upper House of the Oireachtas, has been addressed on occasion by invited non-members. Since 22 May 2001, the Seanad's standing orders allow its Committee on Procedure and Privilege (CPP) to approve the attendance of an Irish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the house. (Currently S.O.57; originally S.O.52A, and later S.O.56.) In July 2011, S.O.57 was extended to ...
An indirect election to the 26th Seanad took place after the 2020 Irish general election, with postal ballots due on 30 and 31 March. Seanad Éireann is the upper house of the Oireachtas, with Dáil Éireann as the lower house of representatives.
26 November 1998 [24] [25] Joint sitting of 28th Dáil and 21st Seanad: Tony Blair: Prime Minister: United Kingdom: Address made after the Belfast Agreement. 16 December 1999 [26] [27] Joint sitting of 28th Dáil and 21st Seanad: Mary McAleese: President: Ireland: Address under Article 13.7 to mark the millennium. [28] 23 May 2006 [29] Dáil ...
The modern Seanad Éireann was established by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937, and first sat on 25 January 1939. When the 1937 constitution was adopted, it was decided to preserve the titles of Oireachtas for the two houses of the legislature, in conjunction with the President, Dáil Éireann for the lower house, and Seanad Éireann for the ...
[1] [2] The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland, are known as TDs. It sat with the 26th Seanad as the Houses of the Oireachtas. There were 160 TDs in the 33rd Dáil, an increase of 2.
Forty-three senators are indirectly elected by an electorate of elected politicians, consisting of members of the incoming 34th Dáil, members of the outgoing 26th Seanad, and incumbent city and county councillors, who have ballots for each of the five vocational panels. [7] [8] There are 1,172 electors for the election of panel members. [9]
26 February 2011 29 years, 4 months James G. Douglas: Independent: 6 December 1922 16 September 1954 28 years, 9 months Service interrupted by the abolition of the Free State Seanad; Did not serve in 4th Seanad Rory Kiely: Fianna Fáil: 27 October 1977 22 July 2007 28 years, 9 months Did not serve in 16th Seanad Patrick McGowan: Fianna Fáil ...