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Twentieth Dáil

Twentieth Dáil (14.3.1973 - 25.5.1977)

Name	Post held
Liam Cosgrave	Taoiseach, Minister for Defence (from 2.12.76 to 16.12.76)

Brendan Corish	Tánaiste & Minister for Health & Minister for Social Welfare

Patrick S. Donegan	Minister for Defence (to: 2.12.1976), Minister for Lands (from 2.12.1976)

James Tully	Minister for Local Government

Richie Ryan	Minister for Finance, Minister for Public Service (from 1.11.1973)

Mark Clinton	Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries

Michael O'Leary	Minister for Labour

Tom O'Donnell	Minister for the Gaeltacht

Tom Fitzpatrick	Minister for Lands (to: 2.12.1976), Minister for Transport and Power (From: 2.12.1976)

Garret FitzGerald	Minister for Foreign Affairs

Conor Cruise O'Brien	Minister for Posts & Telegraphs

Peter Barry	Minister for Transport & Power (to: 2.12.1976), Minister for Education (from: 2.12.1976)

Justin Keating	Minister for Industry & Commerce

Richard Burke	Minister for Education (to: 2.12.1976 - resigned)

Patrick Cooney	Minister for Justice

Oliver J. Flanagan	Minister for Defence (from: 16.12.1976)

Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government.
The Department of the Public Service was established on 1.11.1973.
Dick Burke was appointed as Ireland's EC Commissioner on 2.12.1976.
Department of External Affairs became Department of Foreign Affairs.
Department of Agriculture & Fisheries became Department of Agriculture on 9.2.1977.
Department of Lands became Department of Fisheries on 9.2.1977.

Name	Post held
John Kelly	Parl. Sec. to Taoiseach

Michael P. Murphy	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries

Richard Barry	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Health

Henry Kenny	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Finance (to: 25.9.1975 - died)

Frank Cluskey	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Social Welfare

Michael Begley	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Local Government (to: 30.9.1975)

	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Finance (from: 30.9.1975)**

John Bruton	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Education and Parl. Sec. to Minister for Industry and Commerce

Oliver J. Flanagan	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Defence (from: 30.9.1975 to: 2.12.1976 - appointed Minister for Defence)

John Kelly	Parl. Sec. to Taoiseach and Minister for Defence

Michael P. Murphy	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries

Richard Barry	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Health

Michael Begley	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Finance

Frank Cluskey	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Social Welfare

John Bruton	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Industry and Commerce

Patrick J. Reynolds	Parl. Sec. to Minister for Education and Public Service

Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government.

Twentieth Dáil

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