Administrative Panel

Administrative Panel
Seanad Éireann constituency
Current constituency
Created	1938
Seats	7
Senators	Garret Ahearn (FG)   Martin Conway (FG)   Mark Daly (FF)   Rebecca Moynihan (Lab)   Fiona O'Loughlin (FF)   Diarmuid Wilson (FF)   Mal O'Hara (GP)

The Administrative Panel is one of five vocational panels which together elect 43 of the 60 members of Seanad Éireann, the senate of the Oireachtas (the legislature of Ireland). The Administrative Panel elects seven senators.

Election

Article 18 of the Constitution of Ireland 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".^[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] 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.^[6][7]

Senators

Senators for the Administrative Panel
Key to parties   CnaT = Clann na Talmhan   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   GP = Green   Lab = Labour   SF = Sinn Féin   Ind = Independent
Sen	Election	Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)
2nd	1938		Christopher Byrne (FF)		Thomas Condon (Ind)		John Newcome (Ind)		Margaret Mary Pearse (FF)		Thomas Ruane (FF)		Richard Mulcahy (FG)		Michael Hayes (FG)
3rd	1938				James McGee[a] (Ind)		Denis Healy (FF)						Desmond FitzGerald (FG)
4th	1943		Joseph Hannigan (Ind)						Richard Walsh (FF)		Michael Hearne (FF)		Edward Monahan (FG)
5th	1944		Andrew Clarkin (FF)						Seán Goulding (FF)				Thomas Ruane (FF)
6th	1948		Margaret Mary Pearse (FF)				Patrick Fitzsimons (Ind)						Jeremiah Ryan (FG)		John Finan (CnaT)
7th	1951		James J. McCrea (Lab)						Thomas Ruane (FF)				Patrick Teehan[b] (FF)		Michael J. O'Higgins (FG)
8th	1954		Louis Walsh (Ind)				Margaret Mary Pearse (FF)				John L. O'Sullivan (FG)				Gerry L'Estrange (FG)
	1956				William Woods[c] (Ind)
9th	1957		John O'Leary[d] (Lab)		Patrick Fitzsimons (Ind)		Patrick Connor (FG)
	1960		Gerard B. Dillon[e] (FF)										John J. Brennan[f] (FF)
10th	1961		Cornelius Desmond (Lab)				Liam Ahern (FF)				Seán Brady (FF)		Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (FG)
11th	1965		Jack McQuillan (Lab)						Kieran Egan (FF)		Patrick Teehan (FF)		Éamon Rooney (FG)		Patrick O'Reilly (FG)
12th	1969		Jack Garrett[g] (FF)						Patrick Malone[h] (FG)		Patrick Norton (FF)		Richard Belton (FG)		Patrick J. Reynolds (FG)
	1970								Seán Keegan[i] (FF)
13th	1973				Bernard McGlinchey (FF)		Seán Brosnan[j] (FF)				Philip Burton (FG)		Andy O'Brien (FG)		Thomas Kilbride (FG)
	1975						Micheál Prendergast[k] (FG)
14th	1977				Micheál Cranitch (FF)		Tras Honan (FF)		Michael P. Kitt (FF)		Liam Burke[l] (FG)		Myles Staunton (FG)
	1977		Michael Donnelly[m] (FF)
	1980										Jim Doolan (FF)
15th	1981		Flor O'Mahony (Lab)						Jimmy Leonard (FF)		Patrick Kennedy (FG)				Katharine Bulbulia (FG)
16th	1982								Sean Conway (FF)		Billy Kenneally (FF)		Luke Belton (FG)
17th	1983				Michael Lynch (FF)				Martin O'Donoghue (FF)		Patrick Kennedy (FG)
18th	1987		Michael Doherty (FF)		Seán Haughey (FF)				Mary Wallace (FF)				Joe Doyle (FG)
19th	1989		Joe Costello (Lab)						Michael Finneran (FF)				Seán Doherty (FF)		Tom Raftery (FG)
20th	1993		Jan O'Sullivan (Lab)		Michael O'Kennedy (FF)		Dick Roche (FF)				Tom Enright (FG)		Louis Belton (FG)		Joe Doyle (FG)
21st	1997		Joe Costello (Lab)		Camillus Glynn (FF)		Tony Kett[n] (FF)				Fintan Coogan Jnr (FG)		Fergus O'Dowd (FG)
22nd	2002		Joanna Tuffy (Lab)						Diarmuid Wilson (FF)		Timmy Dooley (FF)		Joe McHugh (FG)		Frank Feighan (FG)
23rd	2007		Brendan Ryan (Lab)								Mark Daly (FF)		Paschal Donohoe (FG)		Nicky McFadden (FG)
	2009						James Carroll[o] (FF)
24th	2011		John Kelly (Lab)		Denis Landy (Lab)		Michael D'Arcy (FG)						Tom Sheahan (FG)		Martin Conway (FG)
25th	2016		Kevin Humphreys (Lab)		Niall Ó Donnghaile (SF)		John Dolan (Ind)						Maura Hopkins (FG)
26th	2020		Rebecca Moynihan (Lab)				Fiona O'Loughlin (FF)						Garret Ahearn (FG)
	2024				Mal O'Hara (GP)

Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns.

Notes

1. Died on 19 January 1956
2. Elected to the 16th Dáil at a by-election on 23 June 1960
3. Elected to Seanad at a by-election on 14 May 1956, replacing James McGee
4. Died on 21 June 1959
5. Elected to Seanad at a by-election on 1 November 1960, replacing Patrick Teehan
6. Elected to Seanad at a by-election on 9 February 1960, replacing John O'Leary
7. Died on 11 September 1977
8. Elected to the 19th Dáil at a by-election on 14 April 1970
9. Elected to Seanad at a by-election on 16 June 1970, replacing Patrick Malone
10. Elected to the 20th Dáil at a by-election on 13 November 1974
11. Elected to Seanad at a by-election on 23 April 1975, replacing Seán Brosnan
12. Elected to 21st Dáil at a by-election on 6 November 1979
13. Elected to Seanad at a by-election on 7 December 1977, following the death of Jack Garrett
14. Died on 19 April 2009
15. Elected to Seanad on 26 November 2009, replacing Tony Kett

List of nominating bodies

The following bodies are on the register of nominating bodies maintained by the Seanad Returning Officer for the Administrative Panel.^[8]

• Association of Irish Local Government
• Local Authority Members’ Association
• Central Remedial Clinic
• Enable Ireland Disability Services Limited
• The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland
• Irish Wheelchair Association
• 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

1. "Constitution of Ireland". Irish Statute Book. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
2. "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 8: Establishment and maintenance of register of nominating bodies". Irish Statute Book. 19 December 1947. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
3. "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 25: Nomination to panels by members of Oireachtas". Irish Statute Book. 19 December 1947. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
4. "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 26: Proposals for nominations to panel by registered nominating bodies". Irish Statute Book. 19 December 1947. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
5. "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 44: The electorate". Irish Statute Book. 19 December 1947. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
6. "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 52: Allocation of members amongst the panels". Irish Statute Book. 19 December 1947. Archived from the original on 28 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
7. "The Seanad Éireann Electoral Process" (PDF). Oireachtas. February 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
8. "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. 16 March 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2023.