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The Child Poverty and Well-being Programme Office Programme Plan

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    Shared Island

    The initiative aims to harness the potential of the Good Friday Agreement

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    Taoiseach launches Shannon Estuary Taskforce Report to transform region into Ireland’s Green Digital ...

    Proposals for faster offshore and onshore renewable energy

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    Legislation Information: Bills On Dáil Order Paper

    Follow the progession of legislation through the houses of Oireachtas

Publications

  • Department of the Taoiseach Annual Report 2022

    22 September 2023

  • 2023 Government of Ireland Village map

    1 September 2023

  • Extension of Deadline for Reporting and Publication of Sixteenth Interim Report

    3 August 2023

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Press releases

  • Minister Hildegarde Naughton publishes Autumn Legislative Programme with 51 priority bills due for ...

    26 September 2023

  • Taoiseach announces €2 million funding for Irish Arts Center in New York

    22 September 2023

  • Taoiseach formally opens the Consulate General of Ireland in Miami

    21 September 2023

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Speeches

  • Speech by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to the Seanad on Thursday 28 September 2023

    28 September 2023

  • Speech by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: National Statement for the General Debate - 22 September 2023

    22 September 2023

  • Speech by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, 18 September 2023

    18 September 2023

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  • National Reform Programme
  • National Risk Assessment 2021/2022 – Overview of Strategic Risks

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Taoiseach

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    Leo Varadkar

    Taoiseach

Ministers

  • Image: Hildegarde Naughton
    Hildegarde Naughton

    Minister of State with responsibility for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy,  Government Chief Whip

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    Peter Burke

    Minister of State with responsibility for EU Affairs

Senior management

  • John Callinan

    Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach

  • Émer Deane

    Assistant Secretary, Britain and Northern Ireland & Shared Island Unit

  • Helen Blake

    Assistant Secretary for EU and International Division,  Assistant Secretary for the EU and International Division

  • John Shaw

    Assistant Secretary for Economic Division

  • Elizabeth Canavan

    Assistant Secretary for Social Policy and Public Service Reform

  • Dermot Woods

    Assistant Secretary for Government Secretariat and Parliamentary Liaison Unit

  • Mary Keenan

    Assistant Secretary for Corporate, Protocol and Civic Policy and Government Information Service

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Department of the Taoiseach, Government Buildings, Merrion Street Upper, Dublin 2, D02 R583
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