Labour Panel

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Seanad Éireann constituency

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name	Labour Panel
type	Seanad Éireann
year	1938
seats	11
members_label	Senators
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| name = Labour Panel | type = Seanad Éireann | year = 1938 | seats = 11 | members_label = Senators | members = {{unbulleted list | Chris Andrews (SF) | Pat Casey (FF) | Nessa Cosgrove (Lab) | Gerard Craughwell (Ind) | Mark Duffy (FG) | Robbie Gallagher (FF) | Mike Kennelly (FG) | Maria McCormack (SF) | Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (FF) | Patricia Stephenson (SD) | Joe O'Reilly (FG) The Labour 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 Labour Panel elects eleven 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 Labour Panel is defined in Article 18.7.1° (iii) as "Labour, whether organised or unorganised". The Seanad returning officer maintains a list of nominating bodies for each of the five panels. Candidates may be nominated either by four members of the Oireachtas or by a nominating body. 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. Eleven senators are elected on the Labour Panel, at least four of whom must have been nominated by Oireachtas members and at least four must have been nominated by nominating bodies.

Senators

List of nominating bodies

The following bodies are on the register of nominating bodies maintained by the Seanad Returning Officer for the Labour Panel:

Irish Conference of Professional and Service Associations
Irish Congress of Trade Unions

References

"Constitution of Ireland".
(19 December 1947). "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 8: Establishment and maintenance of register of nominating bodies".
(19 December 1947). "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 25: Nomination to panels by members of Oireachtas".
(19 December 1947). "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 26: Proposals for nominations to panel by registered nominating bodies".
(19 December 1947). "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 44: The electorate".
(19 December 1947). "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, Section 52: Allocation of members amongst the panels".
(February 2020). "The Seanad Éireann Electoral Process".
(19 July 2019). "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.".

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