This is a list of the members of the 19th
Seanad Éireann, the
upper house
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of the
Oireachtas
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*The President of Ireland
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(legislature) of
Ireland
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. These
Senator
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s were elected or appointed in 1989, after the
1989 general election and served until the close of poll for the
20th Seanad in 1993.
Composition of the 19th Seanad
There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad. 43 Senators are elected by the
Vocational panel
A vocational panel ( ga, rolla gairm bheatha) 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 gr ...
s, 6 elected by the Universities and 11 are
nominated by the Taoiseach
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.
The following table shows the composition by party when the 19th Seanad first met on 1 November 1989.
List of senators
Changes
See also
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Members of the 26th Dáil
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Government of the 26th Dáil
There were two Government of the 26th Dáil, the first formed after the 1989 general election on 15 June 1989, was the 21st Government of Ireland (12 July 1989 – 11 February 1992) led by Charles Haughey as Taoiseach; and the second was the 22n ...
Sources
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References
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