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Fifteenth Dáil

  • Ó: Roinn an Taoisigh

  • 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.

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