sentences:  This new arrangement did not prove electorally beneficial to McQuillan as he lost his seat in Roscommon at the 1965 general election.However, he was elected to Seanad Éireann by the Administrative Panel.He resigned the Labour Party whip in 1967 and did not seek re-election at the 1969 general election, and retired from his Roscommon County Council seat in 1974.