32nd Dáil

The 32nd Dáil was elected at the 2016 general election on 26 February and first met at 10.30 a.m. on 10 March 2016. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland, are known as TDs. It sat with the 25th Seanad as the two Houses of the Oireachtas.

The 32nd Dáil was dissolved by President Michael D. Higgins on 14 January 2020, at the request of the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. The 32nd Dáil lasted days.

Composition of the 32nd Dáil
Government party denoted with bullet Party giving confidence and supply denoted by C.


 * Notes



Leadership
The first act of the 32nd Dáil was the election of the Ceann Comhairle. This was the first time the Ceann Comhairle was elected by secret ballot.


 * Ceann Comhairle: Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Fianna Fáil)
 * Leas-Cheann Comhairle: Pat "the Cope" Gallagher (Fianna Fáil)

Government

 * Taoiseach
 * Enda Kenny (6 May 2016 – 14 June 2017)
 * Leo Varadkar (14 June 2017 – 14 January 2020)
 * Tánaiste
 * Frances Fitzgerald (6 May 2016 – 28 November 2017)
 * Simon Coveney (30 November 2017 – 14 January 2020)

Opposition

 * Opposition Front Bench
 * Leader of the Opposition and Leader of Fianna Fáil: Micheál Martin
 * Fianna Fáil Chief whip: Michael Moynihan
 * Leader of Sinn Féin: Gerry Adams (2016–2018), Mary Lou McDonald (2018–2020)
 * Sinn Féin Chief Whip: Aengus Ó Snodaigh
 * Leader of the Labour Party: Brendan Howlin
 * Leader of the Green Party: Eamon Ryan
 * Leader of the Social Democrats: Catherine Murphy & Róisín Shortall

List of TDs
This is a list of TDs elected to Dáil Éireann in the 2016 general election. The Changes table below records changes in membership and party affiliation.

Technical groups
In the wake of the 2016 general election, which saw a significant increase in the number of TDs elected as independents or from small parties in the 32nd Dáil, the Dáil standing orders were extensively revised to reduce the minimum number for formation of a technical group from seven TDs to five, and to allow multiple technical groups to exist in parallel. In January 2018, there were three groups; Independents 4 Change Group (7), Social Democrats–Green Party Group (5) and the Rural Independents Group (7).

Outgoing Senators elected to Dáil
Senators elected to the Dáil left their Seanad seats vacant for the remaining weeks of the 24th Seanad.
 * Thomas Byrne (FF) (previously a TD from 2007 to 2011)
 * David Cullinane (SF)
 * Michael W. D'Arcy (FG) (previously a TD from 2007 to 2011)
 * Marc MacSharry (FF)
 * Hildegarde Naughton (FG)
 * Darragh O'Brien (FF) (previously a TD from 2007 to 2011)
 * Katherine Zappone (Ind)

Firsts
For the first time, two siblings were elected to Dáil Éireann from the same constituency: Michael and Danny Healy-Rae for Kerry.

Having become the first openly lesbian member of the Oireachtas and the first member in a recognised same-sex relationship with her Seanad nomination in 2011, Katherine Zappone also became the first openly lesbian Teachta Dála (TD) after being elected to the Dáil in 2016, and later the first openly lesbian member of government.

Independents 4 Change, the Social Democrats and Aontú had their first TDs.

On 14 June 2017 Leo Varadkar became the first openly gay Taoiseach.

Malcolm Byrne became the first openly gay man to win a by-election, and the first openly gay Fianna Fáil TD.