Cathaoirleach
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Cathaoirleach is the title of the chair of Seanad Éireann, the sixty-member upper house of the Oireachtas, the legislature of Ireland. The current Cathaoirleach is Fine Gael Senator Jerry Buttimer, who has held the office since 16 December 2022.
Cathaoirleach
Image: Paddy Burke 2014
Image: Denis O'Donovan at the Enthronement of Naruhito (1)
Image: Mark Daly 2022
Speaker (politics)
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The speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer, or the chair. The title was first used in 1377 in England.
Speakers and presiding officers from various Commonwealth nations meet for a Commonwealth Speakers and Presiding Officers Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, 1984
Marshal's chair in the Sejm, lower chamber of the Polish Parliament
Ths Speaker's Chair in the UK House of Commons (19th century photograph)