32nd Dáil Éireann | |||
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Overview | |||
Jurisdiction | Ireland | ||
Meeting place | Leinster House | ||
Term | 2016 – 2021 | ||
Election | 2016 general election | ||
Government | Government of the 32nd Dáil | ||
Members | 158 | ||
Ceann Comhairle | Seán Ó Fearghaíl | ||
Taoiseach | Enda Kenny | ||
Tánaiste | Frances Fitzgerald | ||
Chief Whip | Regina Doherty | ||
Leader of the Opposition | Micheál Martin | ||
Sessions | |||
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1st | 10 March 2016 – |
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This is a list of the members elected to the 32nd Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland. These TDs (members of parliament) were elected at the 2016 general election on 26 February. That general election took place throughout the state to elect 158 members of Dáil Éireann, a reduction of 8 from the prior number of 166. This followed the passing of the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.
The 32nd Dáil convened for the first time at 10.30 am on 10 March 2016. Its first act was to elect a Ceann Comhairle.
Government party denoted with bullet (•)
This is a list of TDs elected to Dáil Éireann in the 2016 general election, sorted by party, before Seán Barrett stood down as Ceann Comhairle.
The list is given in alphabetical order by constituency.
Senators elected to the Dáil left their Seanad seats vacant for the remaining weeks of the 24th Seanad.
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.
Independents 4 Change and the Social Democrats had their first TD's.