Seanad Electoral (Higher Education) Bill, 1998

Public bill · Private Member · Presented

Would replace the Seanad’s six university-elected seats with six seats elected across two constituencies made up of higher-education institutions. Irish citizens aged 18 or over who graduated from a participating institution could vote, with an independent commission recommending the constituencies and annual registers recording eligible graduates.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the election, on a franchise, by institutions of higher education in the State of six members of Seanad Éireann in substitution for those members previously required to be elected by the universities mentioned in subsection 1 of Article 18.4 of the Constitution, to define the franchise on which such members are to be elected, and to provide for connected matters

Last updated 12 April 2018