WOMEN MEMBERS OF SEANAD ÉIREANN
The present Seanad, established in 1937,
has sixty elected and nominated members (women members of the Senate of
the Free State and other former women senators are listed here.)
Eleven are nominated by the Taoiseach, six are elected by graduates of
the National University of Ireland and University of Dublin, and forty-three
are elected by vocational panels. Senators’ terms coincide with those
of members of the Dáil, and they are re-appointed or replaced after each
Dáil election, within ninety days of dissolution. Table 1 shows the current
women senators of the 23rd Seanad (accurate as at August 2008). Table
2 gives a gender breakdown of the current Senate. Click here
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Table 1: Current
women senators
|
Name
|
Panel
|
Party
|
|
|
Ann
Ormonde
|
Cultural &
Educational
|
Fianna
Fáil
|
1993-date
|
|
Mary
M. White
|
Industrial &
Commercial
|
Fianna
Fáil
|
|
|
Geraldine Feeney
|
Labour
|
Fianna
Fáil
|
|
|
Nicky McFadden
|
Administration
|
Fine
Gael
|
2007-date
|
|
Cecilia Keaveney
|
Cultural &
Educational
|
Fianna
Fáil
|
2007-date
|
|
Frances Fitzgerald
|
Labour
|
Fine
Gael
|
2007-date
|
|
Fidelma Healy
Eames
|
Labour
|
Fine
Gael
|
2007-date
|
|
Ivana Bacik
|
University of
Dublin
|
Non-Party
|
2007-date
|
|
Maria Corrigan
|
Taoiseach Nominee
|
Fianna
Fáil
|
2007-date
|
|
Deirdre de Burca
|
Taoiseach Nominee
|
Greens
|
2007-date
|
|
Lisa McDonald
|
Taoiseach Nominee
|
Fianna
Fáil
|
2007-date
|
|
Fiona O'Malley
|
Taoiseach Nominee
|
Progressive
Democrat
|
2007-date
|
Table 2: Senators by gender and party, 2007
|
Party
|
Women
|
Men
|
Women’s
%
|
|
Fianna
Fáil
|
|
|
|
|
Fine
Gael
|
|
|
|
|
Labour
|
|
|
|
|
Progressive
Democrats
|
|
|
|
|
Green
|
1
|
1
|
50
|
|
Independents
& others
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
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