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A Department of State (Irish: Roinn Stáit) of Ireland is a department or ministry of the Government of Ireland.The head of such a department is a minister termed a Minister of the Government; prior to 1977 such ministers were called Ministers of State, a term now used for junior (non-cabinet) ministers. [1]
The Department of the Taoiseach (Irish: Roinn an Taoisigh) is the government department of the Taoiseach, the title in Ireland for the head of government. [2] It is based in Government Buildings, the headquarters of the Government of Ireland, on Merrion Street in Dublin. The civil servant who heads the Department of the Taoiseach is known as ...
The Constitution of Ireland vests executive authority in the Government of Ireland (Irish: Rialtas na hÉireann), which is headed by the Taoiseach, the head of government. The government – also known as the cabinet – is composed of ministers, each of whom must be a member of the Oireachtas, which consists of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann.
The Government Chief Whip is a Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and attends cabinet. The current Chief Whip is Hildegarde Naughton. Since the Rainbow Coalition formed in 1994, several governments have appointed additional Ministers of State with permission to attend cabinet but not to vote.
Deputy. Cormac Devlin. The Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach is a junior ministerial post in the Department of the Taoiseach of the Government of Ireland who performs duties and functions delegated by the Taoiseach . The position was first created in 1922 as Parliamentary secretary to the President of the Executive Council.
As of 2024, 34 women have served as Ministers of State in Ireland. Six of the twenty Ministers of State appointed by the government of Leo Varadkar in December 2022 were women, with two regularly attending cabinet. Some Ministers of State, including the Government Chief Whip, [1] attend cabinet meetings in a non-voting capacity, but are not ...
In the Ministry of Dáil Éireann in the Irish Republic (1919–22), a Ministry of Local Government was established on 2 April 1919. [6] In the Irish Free State, there was a Minister for Local Government as part of the first Executive Council of the Irish Free State established in 1922.
The Minister of State for European Affairs is a junior ministerial post at the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Ireland with special responsibility for European Affairs. The Minister works with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Minister of State does not hold cabinet ...