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Organisation Information

Heads of Office of the Department



Secretaries General of the Department 2021 - 1997

  • Graham Doyle (2020 - )
  • John McCarthy (2014 - 2020)
  • Geraldine Tallon (2007 - 2014)
  • Niall Callan (2001 - 2007)
  • Jimmy Farrelly (1997 - 2001)

Secretaries of the Department of Local Government (later Department of the Environment) 1997-1947

  • Brendan O’Donoghue (1990 - 1997)
  • Thomas Troy (1985 - 1990)
  • Daniel Turpin (1983 -1985)
  • Gerard Meagher (1974 - 1983)
  • Michael Lawless (1966 - 1974)
  • John Garvin (1948 - 1966)
  • John Collins (1947 - 1948)

Secretaries of the Department of Local Government (later Department Local Government and Health) 1947- 1922

  • Thomas McArdle (1946 - 1947)
  • James Hurson (1936 - 1946)
  • Edward McCarron (1922 - 1936)

Vice-Presidents of the Local Government Board for Ireland 1921 -1872

  • Henry Robinson (Junior) (1898 - 1921)
  • George Morris (1891 - 1897)
  • Henry Robinson (Senior) (1880 - 1891)
  • Alfred Power (1872 - 1879)

Chief Commissioners of the Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland 1872 -1847

  • Alfred Power (1849 - 1872)
  • Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton (1847- 1849)

Note

Details from 1847 to 1990 taken from ‘Custom House People’, by Joseph Robins (published by Institute of Public Administration, Dublin: 1993).