This is a list of the members elected to the 32nd

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of the

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(legislature) of

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. 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

, a reduction of 8 from the prior number of 166. This followed the passing of the

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. 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. It was dissolved by President

Michael D. Higgins Michael Daniel Higgins ( ga, Mícheál Dónal Ó hUigínn; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician, poet, sociologist, and broadcaster, who has served as the ninth president of Ireland since November 2011. Entering national politics throug ...

on the request of

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on 14 January 2020. The 32nd Dáil lasted days.

Composition of the 32nd Dáil

Government party denoted with bullet ()
Party giving

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denoted by C. ;Notes Dáil Éireann 10-03-16

Leadership

Ceann Comhairle The (; "Head of heCouncil"; plural usually ) is the chairperson (or speaker) of , the lower house of the (parliament) of Ireland. The person who holds the position is elected by members of the from among their number in the first session a ...

Seán Ó Fearghaíl Seán Ó Fearghaíl (; born 17 April 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as the Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann since March 2016. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare South constituency since 2002. He was a S ...

(Fianna Fáil) *

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Pat "the Cope" Gallagher Pat "the Cope" Gallagher ( ir, Pádraig Ó Gallchóir; born 10 March 1948) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2016 to 2020 and as a Minister of State from 1987 to 1994 and from 20 ...

(Fianna Fáil)

Government

Enda Kenny Enda Kenny (born 24 April 1951) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 2011 to 2017, Leader of Fine Gael from 2002 to 2017, Minister for Defence from May to July 2014 and 2016 to 2017, Leader of the Opposition fro ...

(6 May 2016 – 14 June 2017) **

(14 June 2017 – 14 January 2020) *

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** Frances Fitzgerald (6 May 2016 – 28 November 2017) **

Simon Coveney Simon Coveney (born 16 June 1972) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment since December 2022 and Deputy Leader of Fine Gael since 2017. He previously served as Minister for Foreign Af ...

(30 November 2017 – 14 January 2020)

Opposition

* Opposition Front Bench *

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and

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Micheál Martin Micheál Martin (; born 1 August 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who is serving as Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence since December 2022. He served as Taoiseach from 2020 to 2022 and has been Leader of ...

** Fianna Fáil Chief whip: Michael Moynihan *

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: Gerry Adams , Mary Lou McDonald ** Sinn Féin Chief Whip:

Aengus Ó Snodaigh Aengus Ó Snodaigh (; born 31 July 1964) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, author and historian who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency since the 2002 general election. Early and personal life A Dubliner ...

* Leader of the Labour Party:

Brendan Howlin Brendan Howlin (born 9 May 1956) is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency since 1987. He previously served as Leader of the Labour Party from 2016 to 2020, Minister for Public Expendit ...

* Leader of the Green Party:

Eamon Ryan Eamon Michael Ryan (born 28 July 1963) is an Irish Green Party politician who has served as Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport since June 2020 and Leader of the Green Party since May 2011. He ha ...

* Leader of the Social Democrats: Catherine Murphy & Róisín Shortall

Oireachtas Committees

List of TDs

This is a list of TDs elected to Dáil Éireann in the 2016 general election. The

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table below records changes in membership and party affiliation.

Technical groups

In the wake of the 2016 general election, which saw a significant increase in the number of TDs elected as independents or from small parties in the 32nd Dáil, the Dáil standing orders were extensively revised to reduce the minimum number for formation of a

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from seven TDs to five, and to allow multiple technical groups to exist in parallel. In January 2018, there were three groups; Independents 4 Change Group (7), Social Democrats–Green Party Group (5) and the Rural Independents Group (7).

Independents 4 Change Group

Social Democrats–Green Party Group

Rural Independents Group

Outgoing Senators elected to Dáil

Senators elected to the Dáil left their Seanad seats vacant for the remaining weeks of the 24th Seanad. * Thomas Byrne (FF) (previously a TD from 2007 to 2011) * David Cullinane (SF) * Michael W. D'Arcy (FG) (previously a TD from 2007 to 2011) *

Marc MacSharry Marc MacSharry (born 12 July 1973) is an independent, formerly Fianna Fáil, politician who is a Teachta Dála (TD) for Sligo–Leitrim since 2016. From 2002 to 2016, he was a Fianna Fáil Senator on the Industrial and Commercial Panel. He resi ...

(FF) *

Hildegarde Naughton Hildegarde Naughton (born 1 May 1977) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Government Chief Whip and Minister of State at the Department of Health since December 2022. She has served as a Minister of State attending cabinet since ...

(FG) *

Darragh O'Brien Darragh O'Brien (born 8 July 1974) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage since June 2020. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Fingal constituency since the 2016 g ...

(FF) (previously a TD from 2007 to 2011) *

Katherine Zappone Katherine Zappone (; born 25 November 1953) is an American-Irish independent politician who served as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs from May 2016 to June 2020. She was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-West constituency fro ...

(Ind)

Firsts

For the first time, two siblings were elected to Dáil Éireann from the same constituency:

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and Danny Healy-Rae for Kerry. Having become the first openly lesbian member of the

and the first member in a recognised same-sex relationship with her Seanad nomination in 2011,

also became the first openly lesbian

Teachta Dála A Teachta Dála ( , ; plural ), abbreviated as TD (plural ''TDanna'' in Irish, TDs in English), is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament). It is the equivalent of terms such as ''Member of Parl ...

(TD) after being elected to the Dáil in 2016, and later the first openly lesbian member of government.

Independents 4 Change Independents 4 Change ( ga, Neamhspleáigh ar son an Athraithe) is a left-wing Irish political party. History The political grouping registered as a political party since 2014. It was previously known as Independents for Equality Movement. T ...

, the

Social Democrats Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote so ...

and

Aontú Aontú (; "Unite") is an all-Ireland political party that was formally launched in January 2019, and operates in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Ideologically, Aontú is opposed to abortion and combines elements of social co ...

had their first TDs. On 14 June 2017 Leo Varadkar became the first openly gay Taoiseach.

Malcolm Byrne Malcolm Byrne (born 25 April 1974) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel since April 2020. He previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency from 2019 to 20 ...

became the first openly gay man to win a by-election, and the first openly gay Fianna Fáil TD.

Changes

Footnotes

References

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