32nd Dáil

The 32nd Dáil was elected at the 2016 general election on 26 February and first met at 10.30 a.m. on 10 March 2016. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland, are known as TDs. It sat with the 25th Seanad as the two Houses of the Oireachtas.

The 32nd Dáil was dissolved by President Michael D. Higgins on 14 January 2020, at the request of the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. The 32nd Dáil lasted .

Composition of the 32nd Dáil

Government party denoted with bullet ()
Party giving confidence and supply denoted by C.

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Ceann Comhairle

* Ceann Comhairle: Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Fianna Fáil)
* Leas-Cheann Comhairle: Pat "the Cope" Gallagher (Fianna Fáil)

The first act of the 32nd Dáil was the election of the Ceann Comhairle. This was the first time the Ceann Comhairle was elected by secret ballot.

On 2 June 2016, Seán Crowe, Mattie McGrath, Pat "the Cope" Gallagher and Bernard Durkan were nominated for the position of Leas-Cheann Comhairle. No candidate was elected by resolution. On 6 July, the Dáil proceeded to an election by secret ballot using the single transferable vote. On 7 July, Gallagher was declared elected and approved by resolution.

Political leadership

Government

* Taoiseach
** Enda Kenny (6 May 2016 – 14 June 2017)
** Leo Varadkar (14 June 2017 – 14 January 2020)
* Tánaiste
** Frances Fitzgerald (6 May 2016 – 28 November 2017)
**Simon Coveney (30 November 2017 – 14 January 2020)

Opposition

*Leader of the Opposition and Leader of Fianna Fáil: Micheál Martin
** Fianna Fáil Chief whip: Michael Moynihan
*Leader of Sinn Féin: Gerry Adams , Mary Lou McDonald
** Sinn Féin Chief Whip: Aengus Ó Snodaigh
* Leader of the Labour Party: Brendan Howlin
* Leader of the Green Party: Eamon Ryan
* Leader of the Social Democrats: Catherine Murphy & Róisín Shortall

Oireachtas Committees

List of TDs

This is a list of TDs elected to Dáil Éireann in the 2016 general election. The Changes table below records changes in membership and party affiliation.

Technical groups

In the wake of the 2016 general election, which saw a significant increase in the number of TDs elected as independents or from small parties in the 32nd Dáil, the Dáil standing orders were extensively revised to reduce the minimum number for the formation of a technical group from seven TDs to five, and to allow multiple technical groups to exist in parallel. In January 2018, there were three groups; Independents 4 Change Group (7), Social Democrats–Green Party Group (5) and the Rural Independents Group (7).

Independents 4 Change Group

Social Democrats–Green Party Group

Rural Independents Group

Firsts

For the first time, two siblings were elected to Dáil Éireann from the same constituency: Michael and Danny Healy-Rae for Kerry.

Having become the first openly lesbian member of the Oireachtas and the first member in a recognised same-sex relationship with her Seanad nomination in 2011, Katherine Zappone also became the first openly lesbian Teachta Dála (TD) after being elected to the Dáil in 2016, and later the first openly lesbian member of government.

Independents 4 Change, the Social Democrats and Aontú had their first TDs.

On 14 June 2017 Leo Varadkar became the first openly gay Taoiseach.

Malcolm Byrne became the first openly gay man to win a by-election, and the first openly gay Fianna Fáil TD.

Changes

References

External links

Houses of the Oireachtas: Debates: 32nd Dáil

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