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Seanad Éireann · 2024-03-07

Casual Vacancy: Motion

GP Pauline O'Reilly · Labour Panel

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I move: That the Clerk of Seanad Éireann do send to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage notice of a vacancy in the membership of Seanad Éireann occasioned by the resignation of Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile, a member elected from the Oireachtas Sub-Panel of the Administrative Panel at the General Election for Seanad Éireann, April, 2020. I thank our former colleague and friend, Niall Ó Donnghaile, for his contribution to Seanad Éireann.

He was a good colleague and a good friend here in Leinster House and we wish him well in the next chapter of his life. I wish whoever the candidates may be the best in the by-election.

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GP Pauline O'Reilly this contribution

I move:

That the Clerk of Seanad Éireann do send to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage notice of a vacancy in the membership of Seanad Éireann occasioned by the resignation of Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile, a member elected from the Oireachtas Sub-Panel of the Administrative Panel at the General Election for Seanad Éireann, April, 2020.

FF Pat Casey

I second the motion.

CC Jerry Buttimer

I thank our former colleague and friend, Niall Ó Donnghaile, for his contribution to Seanad Éireann. He was a good colleague and a good friend here in Leinster House and we wish him well in the next chapter of his life.

SF Paul Gavan

Well said.

CC Jerry Buttimer

I wish whoever the candidates may be the best in the by-election.