Template:Short description Template:Use Hiberno-English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox legislative term

The 22nd Seanad was in office from 2002 to 2007. An election to Seanad Éireann, the senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 2002 general election to the 29th Dáil. The senators served until the close of poll for the 23rd Seanad, which was 23 July 2007 for panel members and 24 July 2007 for university members.

CathaoirleachEdit

Rory Kiely (FF) was elected as Cathaoirleach. This followed a vote of Fianna Fáil senators, in which Kiely was one of four candidates for nomination to the position.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On 13 September 2002, Paddy Burke (FG) was proposed as Leas-Chathaoirleach by Jim Higgins (FG) and seconded by Michael Finucane (FG). He was elected without a division.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Composition of the 22nd SeanadEdit

There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad. 43 Senators are elected by the vocational panels, 6 elected by universities and 11 are nominated by the Taoiseach.

The following table shows the composition by party when the 22nd Seanad first met on 12 September 2002.

rowspan="2" colspan="2" Template:Diagonal split header 2 Vocational panels NUI DU Nominated Total
Admin Agri Cult & Educ Ind & Comm Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Fianna Fáil 4 6 3 5 6 0 0 6 30 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Fine Gael 2 4 2 3 4 0 0 0 15 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Labour Party 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 5 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Progressive Democrats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Independent 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 6 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
Total 7 11 5 9 11 3 3 11 60

Effect of changesEdit

Party 2002Template:Anchor1 May 2007Template:Anchor2 July 2007Template:Anchor3
Template:Party name with color 30 27 24
Template:Party name with color 15 15 9
Template:Party name with color 5 5 4
Template:Party name with color 4 5 5
Template:Party name with color 6 8 8
Template:Party name with color no link 0 0 10
Total 60
Notes

Template:Refbegin

  1. Template:Anchor^ The 2002 column indicates the state of parties when 22nd Seanad first met in 2002
  2. Template:Anchor^ The May 2007 column indicates the state of parties on the dissolution of the 29th Dáil
  3. Template:Anchor^ The July 2007 column indicates the state of parties when the Seanad reassembled after the 2007 Dáil election, when 14 senators were elected to the 30th Dáil, including 4 senators who had been nominated by the Taoiseach, who were replaced by 4 new nominees.

Template:Refend

List of senatorsEdit

Template:Seanad member list start Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry Template:Seanad member entry

{{safesubst:#if:|||} }}{{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:End with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| html | 1 }}

ChangesEdit

Template:Constituency changes start Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes Template:Constituency changes

{{safesubst:#if:|||} }}{{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:End with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| html | 1 }}

ReferencesEdit

Template:Reflist

External linksEdit

  • {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}

  • {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}

Template:Lists of members of Seanad Éireann