• Oireachtas. The 29th Dáil was dissolved by President Mary McAleese on 26 April 2007, at the request of the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. The 29th Dáil lasted 1,786...
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  • Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (29th Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 5 October 2004. Retrieved 1 October 2021. "Leaders' Questions – Dáil Éireann (29th Dáil)". Houses...
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    2002 Irish general election (category 29th Dáil)
    Irish general election to the 29th Dáil was held on Friday, 17 May, just over three weeks after the dissolution of the 28th Dáil on Thursday, 25 April by President...
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  • Higgins was elected to Dáil Éireann for the first time. At the 2002 general election, Joe Higgins retained his Dublin West seat in Dáil Éireann. Clare Daly...
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    2007 Irish general election (category 20th Dáil)
    junior coalition partners in the 29th Dáil, the Progressive Democrats, lost six of their eight seats. The 30th Dáil met on 14 June to nominate a Taoiseach...
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    John McGuinness (politician) (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    election. He was vice-chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee in the 29th Dáil and a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committees for European Affairs,...
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    Éamon Ó Cuív (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    "Appointment of Members of Government and Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (28th Dáil) – Vol. 480 No. 2". Houses of the Oireachtas. 9 July 1997. Archived...
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  • Technical group (category 29th Dáil)
    groups include: 27th Dáil: a group of nine deputies formed in 1992. 29th Dáil: a loose federation of 22 opposition deputies. 30th Dáil: a technical group...
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    Brian Lenihan Jnr (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    election. His grandfather was Patrick Lenihan, who followed his son into the Dáil, serving as a TD from 1965 until 1970. Lenihan's aunt Mary O'Rourke was first...
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    Conor Lenihan (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    the Fianna Fáil party.[citation needed] Lenihan was first elected to the Dáil at the 1997 general election. In a reshuffle in October 2004, he was appointed...
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  • Síle de Valera (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    Cuív, a TD who succeeded her as a minister. De Valera was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the Fianna Fáil landslide victory at the 1977 general election...
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    Denis Naughten (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    death of his father. Following, the 1997 general election, he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD for the Longford–Roscommon constituency and was...
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    Martin Ferris (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    appointed to the Sinn Féin Árd Chomhairle in 1995. He ran for election to the Dáil at the 1997 general election in the Kerry North constituency, polling 5,691...
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    Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    victory in 1997 made him the first member of Sinn Féin to be elected to the Dáil since 1957, and the first to actually take their seat since 1922. His election...
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  • Beverley Flynn (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    commissioner and was won by Michael Ring of Fine Gael. She was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1997 general election, as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Mayo constituency...
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    Michael D. Higgins (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    13th Seanad in 1973 by Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1981 general election as a Labour Party TD. He was re-elected...
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    Seán Haughey (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    (100): 1281. 15 December 2006. "Appointment of Minister of State – Dáil Éireann (29th Dáil)". Houses of the Oireachtas. 12 December 2006. Archived from the...
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    John Bruton (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    to Dáil Éireann in the 1969 general election, as a Fine Gael TD for Meath. At the age of 22, he was one of the youngest ever members of the Dáil at that...
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    Róisín Shortall (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    for the local electoral area of Drumcondra. Shortall was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1992 general election, when the Labour Party won a record...
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  • Jackie Healy-Rae (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    by-election campaigns, most notably the election of John O'Leary to the Dáil in 1966. O'Leary retained the seat for thirty-one years. Healy-Rae later...
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    Rory O'Hanlon (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2002 to 2007, Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1997 to 2002, Minister for the...
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    Motion – Dáil Éireann (29th Dáil) – Vol. 565 No. 2". Houses of the Oireachtas. 10 April 2003. "Appointment of Information Commissioner: Motion – Dáil Éireann...
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    Michael Smith (Irish politician) (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    Educational Panel, before his re-election to the Dáil at the 1987 general election. When Smith was returned to the Dáil in 1987, he was appointed Minister of State...
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    Michael Lowry (politician) (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    Thereafter he ran as an Independent candidate and has maintained his seat in the Dáil ever since. The Moriarty Tribunal concluded "beyond doubt" that Lowry was...
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    Willie O'Dea (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    stood for election to Dáil Éireann in Limerick East at the 1981 general election, but was unsuccessful. He was elected to the Dáil on his second attempt...
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    seats in the Dáil, it formed coalition governments with Fianna Fáil during the 26th Dáil (1989–1992), the 28th Dáil (1997–2002), the 29th Dáil (2002–2007)...
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    Brendan Smith (politician) (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    that he planned to run for the Dáil at the next election. At the 2020 general election, he again won re-election to the Dáil. "Brendan Smith". Oireachtas...
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    Michael Noonan (Fine Gael politician) (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    election for the party and secured a seat in Limerick East. Upon taking his Dáil seat, Noonan became a full-time politician, giving up his teaching post and...
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  • Liz O'Donnell (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    Minister of State to the Government in April 2002. She was re-elected to the 29th Dáil at the 2002 general election as TD for Dublin South. In December 2002...
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    Seán Ó Fearghaíl (category Members of the 29th Dáil)
    wishes. He was elected as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann, by its members, at the first sitting of the 32nd Dáil on 10 March 2016. This was the first time...
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