Fifteenth Dáil
- Foilsithe: 28 Samhain 2017
- An t-eolas is déanaí: 28 Samhain 2018
(2.6.1954 - 12.2.1957)
Seventh Government (2.6.1954 - 20.3.1957)
Name | Post held |
John A. Costello | Taoiseach |
William Norton | Tánaiste and Minister for Industry & Commerce |
Richard Mulcahy | Minister for Education and Minister for the Gaeltacht (from 2.7.56 to 24.10.56) |
Joseph Blowick | Minister for Lands |
James Everett | Minister for Justice |
James M. Dillon | Minister for Agriculture |
Sean MacEoin | Minister for Defence |
Michael Keyes | Minister for Posts and Telegraphs |
Liam Cosgrave | Minister for External Affairs |
Brendan Corish | Minister for Social Welfare |
Gerard Sweetman | Minister for Finance |
Patrick O'Donnell | Minister for Local Government |
Thomas F. O'Higgins | Minister for Health |
Patrick James Lindsay | Minister for the Gaeltacht (from: 24.10.1956) |
Notes
(Inter-party Government comprising of Fine Gael, Labour, Clann na Talmhúain & Clann na Pobhlachta.
Under the Ministers and Secretaries Act, the Government can create new Departments and assign Ministers to them. The Seventh Government created a new Department of the Gaeltacht.
Parliamentary Secretaries
Name | Post held |
John O'Donovan | Parl. Sec. to the Government |
Denis J. O'Sullivan | Parl. Sec. to the Taoiseach and Parl. Sec. to Minister for Defence |
Michael Donnellan | Parl. Sec. to Minister for Finance |
William Davin | Parl. Sec. to Minister for Local Government (to: 1.3.1956 - died) |
Oliver J. Flanagan | Parl. Sec. to Minister for Agriculture |
Patrick J. Crotty | Parl. Sec. to Minister for Industry and Commerce |
Daniel Spring | Parl. Sec. to Minister for Local Government (from: 16.3.1956) |
Patrick J. Lindsay | Parl. Sec. to Minister for the Gaeltacht, * Parl. Sec. to Minister for Education, (both positions until 24.10.1956 - appointed as Minister for the Gaeltacht) |
Note
Inter-party Government comprising of Fine Gael, Labour, Clann na Talmhúain & Clann na Pobhlachta.