33rd Dáil
The 33rd Dáil was elected at the 2020 general election on 8 February 2020 and first met on 20 February 2020. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas of Ireland, are known as TDs. It sat with the 26th Seanad as the Houses of the Oireachtas. There were 160 TDs in the 33rd Dáil, an increase of 2.
The 33rd Dáil was dissolved by President Michael D. Higgins on 8 November 2024, at the request of the Taoiseach Simon Harris. It lasted.
Composition of the 33rd Dáil
- 32nd, 33rd, 34th government coalition parties
Ceann Comhairle
The Ceann Comhairle is automatically returned unless they state their intention to retire before the Dáil is dissolved. The outgoing Ceann Comhairle, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, did not retire. The first order of business of the new Dáil was to elect a new Ceann Comhairle. Ó Fearghaíl and Denis Naughten were both nominated, and Ó Fearghaíl was re-elected as Ceann Comhairle in a secret ballot.On 23 July 2020, Catherine Connolly and Fergus O'Dowd were nominated for the position of Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Connolly was elected in a secret ballot.
Political leadership
Government
- Taoiseach
- *Leo Varadkar
- *Micheál Martin
- *Leo Varadkar
- *Simon Harris
- Tánaiste
- *Simon Coveney
- *Leo Varadkar
- *Micheál Martin
- Leader of Fine Gael
- *Leo Varadkar
- *Simon Harris
- Leader of Fianna Fáil
- *Micheál Martin
- Leader of the Green Party
- *Eamon Ryan
- *Roderic O'Gorman
Opposition
- Leader of Sinn Féin
- *Mary Lou McDonald
- Leader of the Labour Party
- *Brendan Howlin
- *Alan Kelly
- *Ivana Bacik
- Leader of the Social Democrats
- *Róisín Shortall & Catherine Murphy
- *Holly Cairns
- Leader of Aontú
- *Peadar Tóibín
- Leader of Independent Ireland
- *Michael Collins