Appointment of Secretary General to the President

The Government has announced that, following consultation with the President, Ms Orla O’Hanrahan, at present Director General of Global Irish Services in the Department of Foreign Affairs, will be appointed Secretary General to the President.

Her appointment arises as Mr. Art O’Leary will soon complete his seven-year term as Secretary General to the President. Mr. O’Leary will be appointed to work on the preparatory institutional and administrative arrangements for the Electoral Commission, pending its formal establishment.

Ms O’Hanrahan is the first woman to be appointed as Secretary General to the President and will take up duty shortly.