Minister of State for land use and biodiversity Pippa Hackett has been unsuccessful in her bid to win a seat in the Dáil after General Election 2024.
The Green Party minister, a member of the Seanad, has been excluded after the second count in the Offaly constituency.
In the same constituency, independent Carol Nolan is top of the pile, and looks likely to retain her seat.
It looks like Minister Hackett will not be the only Green Party candidate to come away from this general election disappointed.
Current indications suggest that the Green Party is in a battle to retain any presence in the next Dáil after General Election 2024.
The party went into this election with 12 seats and a place at the table of government as part of a coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
However, the party’s leadership has conceded that General Election 2024 has been a bad day at the office.
Several political commentators have suggested the party will lose all its seats in the Dáil, with three or four seats being regarded as the best case scenario for the party.
In terms of the other two ministers at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the first, Minister of State Martin Heydon is in a strong position in Kildare South, leading the count there at present.
The faith of Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue is less clear, though there is a long way to go.
In other election developments, Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has been re-elected with ease.
Ireland went to the polls yesterday (Friday, November 29) in to decide which 174 TDs will sit in the 34th Dáil.
Voting began at 7:00a.m yesterday morning and polling stations closed 10:00p.m last night.
There are nearly 700 candidates running in this General Election, spread around 43 constituencies, with each constituency electing between three and five TDs.
This Dáil, when elected, will be the largest in the history of the state.