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FORMER TDS ANNE Rabbitte, Joe Flaherty, and Alan Farrell have been appointed to the Seanad by the Taoiseach following their unsuccessful bids to return to the Dáil.
The three will be filling the seats left vacant by Emer Currie (Fine Gael), Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fáil), and Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fáil). Currie, McGreehan, and Dooley were all elected to the Dáil in the general election.
Rabbitte, a Fianna Fáil TD who served as Minister of State with Special Responsibility for Disabilities, lost her seat in a shock result in Galway East.
Her party colleague Joe Flaherty was previously a TD for Longford-Westmeath. Prior to his election in 2020, he was a councillor on Longford County Council between 2018 and 2020.
Alan Farrell, the chairperson of the Fine Gael parliamentary party, lost his seat running in the new Dublin Fingal East constituency – created by boundary changes last year. He has been a TD since 2011 – first in the Dublin North constituency (2011 – 2016) and then in Dublin Fingal. He was eliminated on the eleventh count.
A spokesperson for the Taoiseach said: “As part of an agreement between the leaders of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, the three vacant seats have been filled until the next Seanad elections in accordance with Article 18.10.2 of the constitution. Alan Farrell will replace Emer Currie and Joe Flaherty and Anne Rabbitte will replace Erin McGreehan and Timmy Dooley.”
The three will hold the seats in the Seanad until the Seanad elections, which are to take place within 90 days of the dissolution of the Dáil – which occurred on 8 November when Taoiseach Simon Harris took to Áras an Uachtaráin to declare a general election.
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Another joke of an organisation. .no effective action but bonuses all around.
People have lived on the canals for years, happily living in quiet bliss. Irish Waterways is a relativity new state organisation paid and funded by the the tax payers of Ireland. They have allowed businesses to encroach platforms and marinas on the waterways, why aren’t Irish Waterways held to account for this ?
If they want to increase mooring charges, the first thing they need to do is provide facilities.
I gew up alongside the Shannon and saw dead fish got blisters from swimming saw humans shit flowing with tampons and toilet roll flowing freely into the river not to mind the sizr of rats that feasted upon the waste and over a 100 years of ffg entitled chancers, ,what has changed
@Robert Halvey: and my family found a few dead rotten animals and people along the way
@Robert Halvey: difference now is that you can’t see what is in the water due to algae from the dairy farmers polluting the water with fertiliser…
@Robert Halvey: And the Green party has now proposed to deal with homelessness , by putting people in houseboats. You couldn’t make this up.Can you imagine the waste and garbage that will be strewn I. The water and on the river banks.
@Robert Halvey: And did you do something about it instead of moaning? I think not.
@Alex: I have done a bit to try get people to vote ,I have created employment actually it was my scaffolding crew that ,made sure the silver mines have something for history and if you want me to keep slapping you , we done one of the water tower’s that where leaking, ,I could give you a head of other examples but I am sure your an ffg lackey, who doesn’t even know why you vote
@Robert Halvey: in other words, you did nothing to improve the water quality in the waterways. No need to write non sense with approximate English. Few words are enough : I didn’t do anything. I don’t vote for ffg but I participate locally in cleaning the waterways and improving it while you don’t and I do it every single year. You talk, that’s all you do, you are just noisy.
@Alex: helped realise salmon and trout back into the Shannon, helped fix serious issues with wather treatment plants Worked in a few power stations, but in all my years I have and never will be an ffg lacky
This is Ireland what do you expect? Nothing works here!
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