Labour Party (Ireland) Front Bench

The Labour Party is the fourth-largest political party in the Oireachtas. The Labour Party leader appoints a team of TDs and Senators to speak for the party on different issues. When the Labour Party was in Government their front bench consisted of the ministerial officeholders. The Labour Party has been in opposition since March 2016 and accordingly, their front bench areas of responsibility broadly correspond to those of Government ministers.

Labour Party frontbench

Portfolio	Spokesperson
Party leader	Joan Burton
Deputy leader	Alan Kelly
Party whip
Parliamentary party chairperson	Jack Wall
Seanad leader	Ivana Bacik

External links

Labour Party spokespersons

Labour Party

History

History of the Labour Party Democratic Left Democratic Socialist Party Irish Land and Labour Association Irish Worker League Militant Tendency National Labour Party Republican Labour Party Socialist Labour Party

Leadership

Leaders	Thomas Johnson (1917–27) Thomas J. O'Connell (1927–32) William Norton (1932–60) Brendan Corish (1960–77) Frank Cluskey (1977–81) Michael O'Leary (1981–82) Dick Spring (1982–97) Ruairi Quinn (1997–2002) Pat Rabbitte (2002–07) Eamon Gilmore (2007–14) Joan Burton (2014–)

Deputy leaders	Barry Desmond (1982–89) Ruairi Quinn (1989–97) Brendan Howlin (1997–2002) Liz McManus (2002–07) Joan Burton (2007–14) Alan Kelly (2014–)

Seanad leaders	Michael Ferris (1981–89) Jack Harte (1989–93) Jan O'Sullivan (1993–97) Joe Costello (1997–02) Brendan Ryan (2002–07) Alex White (2007–11) Phil Prendergast (2011) (acting) Ivana Bacik (2011–)

Presidents	Proinsias De Rossa (1999–2002) Michael D. Higgins (2003–11)

Leadership elections

2014 (Burton)

Party structures

Leader of the Labour Party Labour Party Front Bench Labour Youth Labour Women

Presidential candidates

Mary Robinson (1990) Adi Roche (1997) Michael D. Higgins (2011)

Elected representatives

Dáil Éireann	Burton Howlin Kelly J. O'Sullivan Penrose B. Ryan Sherlock

Seanad Éireann	Ivana Bacik Máiría Cahill John Gilroy Aideen Hayden Lorraine Higgins John Kelly Denis Landy Marie Moloney Mary Moran Susan O'Keeffe John Whelan

Alliances

European	Party of European Socialists Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

International	Progressive Alliance Socialist International

Front benches in Dáil Éireann

Government	Fine Gael Front Bench Labour Party Front Bench

Opposition	Fianna Fáil Front Bench Sinn Féin Front Bench

Independent	Technical group

Non-parliamentary	Green Party

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 03, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.

Labour Party (Ireland) Front Bench

Labour Party frontbench

See also

External links