Labour Panel
The Labour Panel (Irish: An Rolla Oibreachais) is one of five vocational panels which together elect 43 of the 60 members of Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (the legislature of Ireland). The Labour Panel elects eleven senators.
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| Created | 1938 |
| Seats | 11 |
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Election
Article 18 of the Constitution of Ireland provides that 43 of the 60 senators are to be elected from five vocational panels. The Labour Panel is defined in Article 18.7.1º (iii) as "Labour, whether organised or unorganised".[1] The Seanad returning officer maintains a list of nominating bodies for each of the five panels.[2] Candidates may be nominated either by four members of the Oireachtas or by a nominating body.[3][4] The electorate consists of city and county councillors and current members of the Oireachtas. As the Seanad election takes place after the election to the Dáil, the Oireachtas members are the members of the incoming Dáil and the outgoing Seanad.[5] Eleven senators are elected on the Labour Panel, at least four of whom must have been nominated by Oireachtas members and at least four must have been nominated by nominating bodies.[6][7]
Senators
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns.
- Notes
- Died on 18 September 1947.
- Died on 22 May 1946.
- Elected to Seanad at a by-election on 24 July 1946m
- Died on 2 August 1956.
- Died on 27 February 1950.
- Resigned on 31 May 1950.
- Died on 22 June 1953.
- Died on 2 April 1960.
- Elected to Seanad at a by-election on 1 November 1960.
- Died on 23 February 1972.
- Resigned Fianna Fáil whip on 27 March 2007.
- Elected to the Seanad at a by-election on 23 June 1998.
- Fine Gael party whip removed on 16 July 2013.
- Suspended from Sinn Féin 19 March – 19 June 2018.
- Elected to Dáil Éireann on 8 February 2020.
List of nominating bodies
The following bodies are on the register of nominating bodies maintained by the Seanad Returning Officer for the Labour Panel:[8]
- Irish Conference of Professional and Service Associations
- Irish Congress of Trade Unions
References
- "Constitution of Ireland". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 8: Establishment and maintenance of register of nominating bodies". Irish Statute Book. 19 December 1947. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 25: Nomination to panels by members of Oireachtas". Irish Statute Book. 19 December 1947. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 26: Proposals for nominations to panel by registered nominating bodies". Irish Statute Book. 19 December 1947. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 44: The electorate". Irish Statute Book. 19 December 1947. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 52: Allocation of members amongst the panels". Irish Statute Book. 19 December 1947. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- "The Seanad Éireann Electoral Process" (PDF). Oireachtas. February 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- "Register of Nominating Bodies as revised at the annual revision and signed by the Seanad Returning Officer in pursuance of section 19 of the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, as amended" (PDF). Oireachtas. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
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