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	Senator Mary Henry - Speech
		He proposed that Seanad elections should be held at regular intervals and there should be a geographical split of constituencies with various sectors represented in the four provinces.
		The existing resources of the Seanad should be utilised to this end, perhaps by establishing a form of committee to act as a tribunal of inquiry.
		It observed that the Seanad does make a useful contribution to the democratic life of the State but that the Seanad is a resource that could be deployed to far greater effect if it were reformed.
	homepage.eircom.net /~maryhenry/debates/3dec99a.htm (14995 words)

	Senators
		The Members of Seanad Éireann (Senate) are referred to as Senators and this leaflet gives a general overview of their work.
		Seanad Éireann normally meets on Wednesdays and Thursdays and its main business is the revising of legislation sent to it by Dáil Éireann.
		Seanad Éireann can initiate and revise legislation but under the Constitution its legislative role is restricted in that it cannot initiate Money Bill i.e.
	www.irlgov.ie /oireachtas/a-misc/senator.html (514 words)

	No. 1/1922: CONSTITUTION OF THE IRISH FREE STATE (SAORSTÁT EIREANN) ACT, 1922
		Seanad Eireann shall be composed of citizens who shall be proposed on the grounds that they have done honour to the Nation by reason of useful public service or that, because of special qualifications or attainments, they represent important aspects of the Nation's life.
		One-fourth of the members of Seanad Eireann shall be elected every three years from a panel constituted as hereinafter mentioned at an election at which the area of the jurisdiction of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) shall form one electoral area, and the elections shall be held on principles of Proportional Representation.
		Any member of Seanad Eireann so chosen shall retire from office at the conclusion of the three years period then running and the vacancy thus created shall be additional to the places to be filled under Article 32 of this Constitution.
	acts.oireachtas.ie /zza1y1922.1.html (4741 words)

	BUNREACHT NA hÉIREANN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Seanad Éireann shall be composed of sixty members, of whom eleven shall be nominated members and forty-nine shall be elected members.
		The members of Seanad Éireann to be elected by the Universities shall be elected on a franchise and in the manner to be provided by law.
		A general election for Seanad Éireann shall take place not later than ninety days after a dissolution of Dáil Éireann, and the first meeting of Seanad Éireann after the general election shall take place on a day to be fixed by the President on the advice of the Taoiseach.
	www.taoiseach.gov.ie /upload/publications/297.htm (7893 words)

	Irish Times Article - Public voting for seats urged in Seanad reforms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The report is also understood to say the next leader of the Seanad should have the right to attend Cabinet meetings with the status of a Minister or Minister of State.
		The committee is expected to say that the Seanad will lack public legitimacy for as long as the majority of the public is excluded from voting for it.
		The report is understood to state that there should be a system of rolling renewal of the Seanad, with half its members elected every five years and the other half after a general election.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2004/0416/1923611271HM1SEANADNEW.html (543 words)

	SEANAD ELECTORAL ACT, 1928 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Every candidate at a Seanad election shall be entitled to attend at the issue of ballot papers for that election and the Seanad returning officer shall on the request of any such candidate inform such candidate of the time and place at which such issue of ballot papers will be made.
		The Seanad returning officer shall show any declaration of identity which he proposes to reject on the ground that it has not been properly completed and made to the candidates present, and if an objection is made by any such candidate to his decision shall add to the endorsement the words "rejection objected to".
		Whenever the Seanad returning officer is required by this Schedule to seal up any documents in a separate packet he shall endorse on such packet a statement of the number and character of such documents and the election to which they relate.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /1928_29.html (4050 words)

	Sinn Féin: An Inclusive Seanad
		The national list system was rejected on the basis that it would not involve a radical reform of the Seanad, would not provide for greater representation of civic society and would result in a Seanad which would in its composition be a duplication of the Dáil.
		Sinn Féin proposes a Seanad based on a sectoral panel system elected by universal suffrage of citizens of the 32 counties of Ireland and those resident therein for more than five years, who are over the age of 16 years.
		The Seanad would have the ability to permit MEPs to attend and speak, without voting rights, at Seanad debates on European issues or on legislation resulting from the transposition of EU directives.
	sinnfein.ie /news/detail/1197 (1246 words)

	Senator Mary Henry - Speech
		The purpose of the amendments is to delete the Clerk of the Seanad and insert the Chairman of Dáil Éireann so as to remove the clerk from an inappropriate role since, under the Constitution, the Seanad is a vocational, not a party political, chamber.
		A similar procedure operates for an appeal against a refusal of the Clerk of Seanad to an application for inclusion on the register of nominating bodies under the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act, 1947, where the appeal is made in that case to the Clerk of the Dáil.
		For a party to register, it is required to have a Dáil representative, which gives it an electoral mandate from the public in terms of a general franchise whereas the Seanad has a selective electorate and it is not open to all electors to cast their vote on who is elected to it.
	homepage.eircom.net /~maryhenry/debates/14june01a.htm (22439 words)

	An Seanad (The Senate or Upper House of Parliament)
		Certain occupations are incompatible with membership of the Seanad, for example, members of the judiciary, senior officials of the institutions of the European Union, civil servants, wholetime members of the Defence Forces and Gardai (police).
		When a casual vacancy occurs in the Seanad through the death, disqualification or resignation of a panel member, the vacancy is filled by bye-election.
		The electorate at a bye-election is composed of the members of the Dail and Seanad, 225 in all.
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/cominfo/democracy/an_seanad.htm (1370 words)

	Irish Times Article - Report likely to urge changes in the way Seanad is elected (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is understood that such a measure is being examined as a means of freeing up Seanad seats for direct election by the electorate at large, which would greatly increase the Seanad franchise.
		With the sub-committee already agreed in principle to call for the creation of Northern Ireland seats in the Seanad, it has been suggested by informed individuals that a referendum to enable this to take place could be held on the same day as the local and European elections next June.
		This would open the Seanad franchise to the graduates of Dublin City University and the University of Limerick and those of the institutes of technology.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2003/1227/3259516505HM1SEANAD.html (448 words)

	Members of the 22nd Seanad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of members of Seanad Éireann, the Republic of Ireland's senate, as of 2004.
		The current senators were all either elected or appointed in 2002, after the 2002 general election, to terms which will expire in 2007 at the latest.
		Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fáil) - Leader of the Seanad
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Members_of_the_22nd_Seanad (118 words)

	Constitution and Government of Ireland
		A Bill passed by the Dáil which the Seanad rejects or which passed in the Seanad with amendments to which the Dáil does not agree, or a Bill which is neither rejected nor passed within ninety days by the Seanad, may subsequently be enacted into law by a resolution of the Dáil.
		In general, the Seanad may delay for a maximum of ninety days a Bill passed by the Dáil or may suggest changes in the Bill, but cannot block it permanently.
		The Clerk of the Seanad, acting as Seanad Returning Officer, is required to maintain a register of bodies entitled to nominate a number of people to the panels of candidates.
	www.ireland-information.com /reference/congov.htm (2863 words)

	NUI Elections - Ollscoil na hÉireann - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND
		The Seanad Election is governed by State legislation while the Convocation Elections are governed by University Statutes.
		The legal basis for the University Seanad Éireann elections is Bunreacht na hÉireann, Article 18(4) and the relevant Act is the Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937, as amended.
		Under Section 56(f)(ii) of the Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Act 2001, the Registration Officer is further authorised to remove the name of any graduate ‘after reasonable enquiry by the registration officer, whose address or the address to which the ballot paper is to be sent is unknown’.
	www.nui.ie /elections (1095 words)

	Monday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories
		The salaries for members of the Seanad, who are all part-time, have more than doubled since Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats came to power.
		He acknowledged the delays in reforming the Seanad were damaging it in the public eye.
		Showing the slow pace of change in the Seanad, a referendum was passed in 1979 to allow a wider number of college third level graduates to elect the university senators.
	www.finfacts.com /irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10004853.shtml (5439 words)

	Seanad Éireann Committee on Procedure and Privileges 2002 - Tithe an Oireachtais
		Seanad Éireann Committee on Procedure and Privileges 2002 - Tithe an Oireachtais
		The Committee on Procedure and Privileges of Seanad Éireann has established a Sub-Committee to review and make recommendations on the composition and functions of the Seanad.
		Order Papers of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann Order papers are more...
	www.oir.ie /viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/Committees29thDail/cpp-seanad.htm (295 words)

	Seanad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Taoiseach nominates 11 of the members and 49 members are elected in a Seanad election.
		As the chairperson of the Seanad, the Cathaoirleach chairs the proceedings in the House and must act impartially.
		A Sub-Committee of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges of Seanad Éireann was established to review and make recommendations on the current and future composition and functions of the Seanad in Ireland.
	oasis.gov.ie /government_in_ireland/.../seanad_eireann/the_seanad.html (269 words)

	Seanad Panel By-Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		When a casual vacancy occurs in the Seanad through the death, disqualification or resignation of a sub-panel member, the vacancy is filled by a by-election.
		To be nominated as a candidate for an Oireachtas sub-panel vacancy, any 9 members of the Dáil or Seanad must jointly nominate you.
		To be nominated as a candidate for a Nominating Bodies sub-panel vacancy, you must be nominated by a registered nominating body for the relevant panel.
	oasis.gov.ie /.../seanad_eireann/seanad_panel_by_elections.html (179 words)

	Alumni
		Currently in Seanad Éireann, only graduates of Trinity College Dublin and the National College of Ireland are entitled to elect senators (three each) despite the fact that the Constitution was amended in 1979 to permit a widening of the franchise to other institutions.
		A Seanad sub-committee, chaired by Mary O'Rourke, TD, is presently engaged in discussing voting reform.
		Currently, there is a Seanad sub-committee discussing Seanad reform (endorsed by An Taoiseach in February 2003).
	www.dcu.ie /alumni/summer03/p40.html (836 words)

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		In January the Leaders of the five groups in the Seanad had a meeting with An Taoiseach and he gave the go ahead for the Reform package.
		Functions The role of Seanad Eireann in the passage of legislation, The contribution Seanad Eireann could make to enhanced parliamentary accountability and scrutiny, The extent to which Seanad Eireann could engage in the review of public policy; and The role of Seanad Eireann in European Union affairs.
		The Sub-Committee shall present to Seanad Eireann an interim report not later than 30 June 2003, and a final report not later 31 December 2003.
	www.graduateequality.com /docs/pd0008.doc (590 words)

	GraduateEquality.com
		Communications and Marketing and Dr. Gary Murphy from the School of Law and Government presented DCU's case to the Sub-Committee on Seanad Reform on Thursday 18 September 2003, arguing that DCU's graduates should receive a Seanad vote in a single six seat University and IT constituency.
		On 25 February 2003, we received a communication from Senator Mary O'Rourke, Leader of Seanad Éireann.
		Her letter gave details of ongoing work to reform Seanad Éireann.
	www.graduateequality.com /background.html (131 words)

	Seanad, 2001-07-10
		It is because Article 22 of the Constitution states that a Bill initiated in Seanad Éireann, if amended in Dáil Éireann, shall be considered as a Bill initiated in Dáil Éireann.
		Any Standing Order or Orders of the Seanad may be suspended for the day's sitting, and for a particular purpose, upon motion made after notice.
		A Bill which has been initiated in the Seanad and amended by the Dáil shall, after its receipt back from the Dáil be deemed to have passed its First, Second and Third Stages in the Seanad and shall be placed on the Order Paper for its Fourth Stage.
	www.iol.ie /~aecolley/record/HS2001-07-10.html (2970 words)

	Ivana Bacik, Time for Change in the Senate
		Part of the reason for this low turnout is that, unless you've informed Trinity of your new address, ballot papers are sent to the address where you lived at the time of graduation.
		And remember, graduates of DIT whose degrees were awarded through Trinity are also entitled to vote in the Seanad elections.
		Thousands of NUI graduates who also have a vote in the Seanad elections can ensure that they are registered to vote and that their postal details are correct by clicking on this link.
	www.ivanabacik.com (311 words)

	IRLII
		(iii) Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann to conduct the defence of proceedings against members of a Committee appointed by Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann.
		(b) the day before the polling day of the general election for Seanad Éireann next held after his or her appointment as such member, or he or she ceases to be a member.
		(b) ceases to be a member of Seanad Éireann, following a general election for that House after the dissolution referred to in paragraph (a), or following his or her election to Dáil Éireann in a general election or bye-election.
	www.ucc.ie /law/irlii/statutes/2003-28.php (6389 words)

	SEANAD ELECTORAL (PANEL MEMBERS) ACT, 1947
		45 The electoral roll for Seanad general election.
		47 The ballot papers for Seanad general election.
		48 Method of marking votes on ballot paper at Seanad general election.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /ZZA42Y1947.html (553 words)

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