Members of the 25th Seanad

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25th Seanad Éireann
24th Seanad
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Overview
Jurisdiction Ireland
Meeting place Leinster House
Members 60

This is a list of the members of the 25th Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland. These Senators were elected in April 2016 when postal voting closed. The Taoiseach's nominees are usually selected soon afterwards. The Seanad election takes place after the 2016 general election for the Dáil Éireann.[1]

Electoral system

Article 18.8 of the Constitution requires that an election for Seanad Éireann must take place not later than 90 days after a dissolution of the Dáil. On 9 February, Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly signed the orders for the Seanad Election.

Forty-three Vocational Panel seats in the Seanad are filled by an electorate of public representatives, comprising the 158 members of the incoming 32nd Dáil, the 60 members of the outgoing 24th Seanad, and the 949 members of city and county councils, each of whom has one vote in each of the five panels. The total electorate was 1,155: there were 8 council vacancies, and 7 ex-Senators elected as TDs had only one vote.[2][3] Polling closed at 11 a.m. on Monday 25 April 2016, with the count beginning immediately afterwards. A total of 1,124 of the electorate voted.[3] Each panel is subdivided into an Oireachtas ("inside") subpanel and Nominating Bodies ("outside") subpanel, and a portion of seats must be filled from each subpanel; John Dolan was elected despite having fewer votes than Tom Sheahan and Thomas Welby when they were eliminated, because they were on the inside panel and all remaining seats were reserved for the outside panel.[4][5]

Three seats are elected by graduates of the National University of Ireland and three seats are elected by graduates and scholars of the University of Dublin (Trinity College).

Polls for these two university constituencies closed at 11.00 a.m. on Tuesday 26 April 2016.

11 senators were directly nominated by the Taoiseach on 27 May 2016.[6][7]

Composition of the 25th Seanad

There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad. 43 Senators are elected by the Vocational Panels, 6 elected by the two University constituencies, and 11 are nominated by the Taoiseach.

Nominations for the 43 Vocational Panel Seats closed at noon on 21 March 2016 and the full list of panel nominees was published in Iris Oifigiúil on 1 April 2016.[8]

  Administrative Panel[5] Agricultural Panel[9] Cultural and Educational Panel[10] Industrial and Commercial Panel[11] Labour Panel[12] National University of Ireland[13] University of Dublin Nominated by the Taoiseach Total
Fianna Fáil 2 3 2 3 4 0 0 0 14
Fine Gael 2 3 2 3 3 0 0 6 19
Sinn Féin 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 7
Labour Party 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 5
Green Party 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Independent 1 1 0 1 1 3 2 5 14
Total 7 11 5 9 11 3 3 11 60

List of senators

The eleven members nominated by the Taoiseach were appointed on 27 May 2016.

  • Note: The entries for Senators who were elected or appointed to fill vacancies are shown in italics
Name Panel   Party Notes
Martin Conway Administrative Panel   Fine Gael  
Mark Daly Administrative Panel   Fianna Fáil  
John Dolan Administrative Panel   Independent  
Maura Hopkins Administrative Panel   Fine Gael  
Kevin Humphreys Administrative Panel   Labour Party  
Niall Ó Donnghaile Administrative Panel   Sinn Féin  
Diarmuid Wilson Administrative Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Victor Boyhan Agricultural Panel   Independent  
Paddy Burke Agricultural Panel   Fine Gael  
Maria Byrne Agricultural Panel   Fine Gael  
Rose Conway-Walsh Agricultural Panel   Sinn Féin  
Paul Daly Agricultural Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Denis Landy Agricultural Panel   Labour Party  
Tim Lombard Agricultural Panel   Fine Gael  
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh Agricultural Panel   Sinn Féin  
Brian Ó Domhnaill Agricultural Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Denis O'Donovan Agricultural Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Grace O'Sullivan Agricultural Panel   Green Party  
Lorraine Clifford-Lee Cultural and Educational Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Gabrielle McFadden Cultural and Educational Panel   Fine Gael  
Kieran O'Donnell Cultural and Educational Panel   Fine Gael  
Keith Swanick Cultural and Educational Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Fintan Warfield Cultural and Educational Panel   Sinn Féin  
Catherine Ardagh Industrial and Commercial Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Frances Black Industrial and Commercial Panel   Independent  
Colm Burke Industrial and Commercial Panel   Fine Gael  
Paul Coghlan Industrial and Commercial Panel   Fine Gael  
Aidan Davitt Industrial and Commercial Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Gerry Horkan Industrial and Commercial Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Industrial and Commercial Panel   Sinn Féin  
Catherine Noone Industrial and Commercial Panel   Fine Gael  
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin Industrial and Commercial Panel   Labour Party  
Jerry Buttimer Labour Panel   Fine Gael  
Gerard Craughwell Labour Panel   Independent  
Máire Devine Labour Panel   Sinn Féin  
Robbie Gallagher Labour Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Paul Gavan Labour Panel   Sinn Féin  
Terry Leyden Labour Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Jennifer Murnane-O'Connor Labour Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Ged Nash Labour Panel   Labour Party  
Joe O'Reilly Labour Panel   Fine Gael  
Ned O'Sullivan Labour Panel   Fianna Fáil  
Neale Richmond Labour Panel   Fine Gael  
Alice Mary Higgins National University of Ireland   Independent  
Michael McDowell National University of Ireland   Independent  
Rónán Mullen National University of Ireland   Independent  
Ivana Bacik University of Dublin   Labour Party  
David Norris University of Dublin   Independent  
Lynn Ruane University of Dublin   Independent  
Ray Butler Nominated by the Taoiseach   Fine Gael  
Paudie Coffey Nominated by the Taoiseach   Fine Gael  
Frank Feighan Nominated by the Taoiseach   Fine Gael  
Joan Freeman Nominated by the Taoiseach   Independent  
Colette Kelleher Nominated by the Taoiseach   Independent  
Billy Lawless Nominated by the Taoiseach   Independent  
Michelle Mulherin Nominated by the Taoiseach   Fine Gael  
Pádraig Ó Céidigh Nominated by the Taoiseach   Independent  
Marie-Louise O'Donnell Nominated by the Taoiseach   Independent  
John O'Mahony Nominated by the Taoiseach   Fine Gael  
James Reilly Nominated by the Taoiseach   Fine Gael  

See also

References

  1. Under the terms of the Constitution of Ireland, an election for Seanad Éireann must take place within 90 days of the dissolution of Dáil Éireann by the President.
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