Everything about Teachta D La totally explained
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Teachta Dála is a member of
Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the
Oireachtas (Parliament) of the
Republic of Ireland. The official translation of Teachta Dála is
Deputy to the Dáil, a more literal translation is
Assembly Delegate. In
English the abbreviation
TD is normally used, with TDs as the plural .
The term was first used to describe Irish parliamentarians elected in the
1918 general election who, rather than attending the
British House of Commons in London, to which they'd been elected, assembled instead in
Dublin's
Mansion House to create a new Irish parliament:
Dáil Éireann. The term continued to be used after this "
First Dáil" and was used to refer to later members of the
Irish Republic's single chamber Dáil Éireann (or "Assembly of Ireland") (1919–1922), members of
Dáil Éireann (or "
Chamber of Deputies") of the
Irish Free State (1922–1937), and the Dáil Éireann (or the "
House of Representatives") of Ireland.
Style
The initials "TD" are placed after the surname of the elected TD. For example, the current
Taoiseach (head of government) is "
Brian Cowen, TD". The
style used to refer to individual TDs during debates in Dáil Éireann is the member's name preceded by
Deputy : for example, "Deputy Kenny",
"an Teachta Ó Cionnaith".
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