Byelection for the vacant TCD seat would likely cost more than €500,000
Senator David Norris, who resigned from the Seanad in January after 36 years, making his final speech to the chamber to voice his support for the people of Gazaseat vacated by David Norris on his retirement more than six months ago, with the cost of such a vote likely to be more than €500,000.
The Irish Times spoke to a number of senators who indicated that it was unlikely that the byelection would take place. Speaking on condition of anonymity, they said the main reason senators have been reluctant to move the writ is because of the huge costs associated with university byelections, especially given that the new member would likely sit for only a matter of months with a general election on the horizon.
However, a candidate in the 2022 University of Dublin byelection, Aubrey McCarthy, a businessman and chair of homelessness charity Tiglin, has said voters are being disenfranchised by the refusal of senators to move the writ. Two further vacancies were created in Seanad Éireann since the European elections, with Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty and Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan elected as MEPs for the Dublin constituency.
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