15th Dáil

15th Dáil
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Overview
Legislative body	Dáil Éireann
Jurisdiction	Ireland
Meeting place	Leinster House
Term	2 June 1954 – 12 February 1957
Election	1954 general election
Government	7th government of Ireland
Members	147
Ceann Comhairle	Patrick Hogan
Taoiseach	John A. Costello
Tánaiste	William Norton
Chief Whip	Denis J. O'Sullivan
Leader of the Opposition	Éamon de Valera
Sessions
1st 2 June 1954 – 15 July 1954 2nd 27 October 1954 – 14 July 1955 3rd 26 October 1955 – 26 July 1956 4th 24 October 1956 – 13 December 1956

The 15th Dáil was elected at the 1954 general election on 14 May 1954 and met on 2 June 1954. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature), of Ireland are known as TDs. It sat with the 8th Seanad as the two Houses of the Oireachtas.

On 12 February 1957, President Seán T. O'Kelly dissolved the Dáil at the request of the Taoiseach John A. Costello on 4 February. The 15th Dáil lasted 987 days.

Fine Gael, the Labour Party, and Clann na Talmhan, denoted with bullets (●), formed the 7th government of Ireland, a minority government dependent on the support of Clann na Poblachta.

This is a graphical comparison of party strengths in the 15th Dáil from June 1954. This was not the official seating plan.

On the meeting of the Dáil, Patrick Hogan (Lab), who had served as Ceann Comhairle in the previous Dáil, was proposed by Éamon de Valera (FF) and seconded by Richard Mulcahy (FG) for the position. His election was approved without a vote.^[1] Hogan had served as Leas-Cheann Comhairle from 1927 to 1928, from 1932 to 1938 and from 1948 to 1951.

The list of the 147 TDs elected is given in alphabetical order by Dáil constituency.^[2]

• Houses of the Oireachtas: Debates: 15th Dáil