Senator Joe O'Reilly was elected one of the Vice Presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) at the plenary session of 22-26 January 2018.
Vice Presidents are elected annually at the beginning of an ordinary session and remain in office until the opening of the next session. The functions of a Vice President are to replace the President when the latter is unavailable during a debate of the Assembly during one of its part sessions. A Vice President may furthermore be called upon by the President to fulfil certain representational obligations of the President.
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