The Administrative Panel is one of five

vocational panel A vocational panel () is any of five lists of candidates from which are elected a total of 43 of the 60 senators in Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of Ireland. Each panel corresponds to a grouping of "interests and ...

s which together elect 43 of the 60 members of

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, the

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of the

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(the legislature of

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). The Administrative Panel elects seven senators.

Election

Article 18 of the

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provides that 43 of the 60 senators are to be elected from five vocational panels. The Administrative Panel is defined in Article 18.7.1°(v) as "Public Administration and social services, including voluntary social activities". The Seanad returning officer maintains a list of nominating bodies for each of the five panels. Candidates may be nominated either by four members of the Oireachtas or by a nominating body. 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. Seven senators are elected on the Administrative Panel, at least three of whom must have been nominated by Oireachtas members and at least three must have been nominated by nominating bodies.

Senators

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List of nominating bodies

The following bodies are on the register of nominating bodies maintained by the Seanad Returning Officer for the Administrative Panel. *Association of Irish Local Government *Local Authority Members’ Association * Central Remedial Clinic *Enable Ireland Disability Services Limited *The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland *

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*Inclusion Ireland — National Association for People with an Intellectual Disability *National Association for the Deaf *The Irish Kidney Association Company CLG * Irish Deaf Society — National Association of the Deaf *Deaf Village Ireland *Disability Federation of Ireland *Irish Foster Care Association *The Alzheimer Society of Ireland *Co-operative Housing Ireland Society Ltd. *Co-operative House *Center for Independent Living Limited *Carmichael House *National Council for the Blind *Threshold *Care Alliance Ireland *The Immigrant Council of Ireland * Family Carers Ireland *Irish Local Development Network CLG * BeLonG To Youth Services *LGBT Ireland (LGBT Support & Advocacy Ireland CLG)

References

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