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Irish MEPs have said they did not vote in favour of a European Parliament motion that called for a Gaza ceasefire because two conditions attached to it rendered it “meaningless”.
This is a list of the 14 members of the European Parliament for Ireland elected at the 2024 European Parliament election. They will serve in the 2024 to 2029 session . List
This is a list of the members of the European Parliament for Ireland elected at the 2019 European Parliament election.They served in the 2019 to 2024 session, but two of them did not take their seats until the reallocation of seats which took place when the MEPs elected for the United Kingdom vacated their seats on the implementation of Brexit on 31 January 2020.
Ireland was allocated an additional seat in 2023 after a pre-election assessment of the parliament composition based on the most recent population figures. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The Electoral Commission recommended this seat be given to Midlands–North-West, with the transfer of County Laois and County Offaly from Ireland South.
Ireland gained one MEP under this arrangement, increasing from 13 to 14. The Electoral Commission sought submissions on a review of European Parliament Constituencies. [ 5 ] In a report in November 2023, it recommended that the additional seat be given to the constituency of Midlands–North-West , with the transfer of County Laois and County ...
In March 2022, Wallace was one of 13 MEPs who voted against a European Parliament resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [90] Wallace was criticised by constituents and others in Ireland, [91] as well as the EU rapporteur on Ukraine, Michael Gahler, who said "Maybe he is under instruction from Moscow or the embassy there". [92]
For the 2019 European Parliament election, a reapportionment following Brexit and the loss of 73 MEPs from the United Kingdom gave two additional seats to Ireland. Following a recommendation of the Constituency Commission , Dublin gained an extra seat, from 3 to 4.
This is a list of current and former senators who have served for at least 20 years in the Seanad, including both the Free State Seanad and the Seanad established under the 1937 Constitution. There was a 22-month gap between the abolition of the Free State Seanad in 1936 and the inauguration in 1938 of the 2nd Seanad, the first incarnation of ...