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Minister for Education and Minister for the Gaeltacht (from 2.7.56 to 24.10.56)
Joseph Blowick
Minister for Lands
James Everett
Minister for Justice
James M. Dillon
Minister for Agriculture
Sean MacEoin
Minister for Defence
Michael Keyes
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs
Liam Cosgrave
Minister for External Affairs
Brendan Corish
Minister for Social Welfare
Gerard Sweetman
Minister for Finance
Patrick O'Donnell
Minister for Local Government
Thomas F. O'Higgins
Minister for Health
Patrick James Lindsay
Minister for the Gaeltacht (from: 24.10.1956)
Notes
(Inter-party Government comprising of Fine Gael, Labour, Clann na Talmhúain & Clann na Pobhlachta.
Under the Ministers and Secretaries Act, the Government can create new Departments and assign Ministers to them. The Seventh Government created a new Department of the Gaeltacht.
Parliamentary Secretaries
Name
Post held
John O'Donovan
Parl. Sec. to the Government
Denis J. O'Sullivan
Parl. Sec. to the Taoiseach and Parl. Sec. to Minister for Defence
Michael Donnellan
Parl. Sec. to Minister for Finance
William Davin
Parl. Sec. to Minister for Local Government (to: 1.3.1956 - died)
Oliver J. Flanagan
Parl. Sec. to Minister for Agriculture
Patrick J. Crotty
Parl. Sec. to Minister for Industry and Commerce
Daniel Spring
Parl. Sec. to Minister for Local Government (from: 16.3.1956)
Patrick J. Lindsay
Parl. Sec. to Minister for the Gaeltacht, * Parl. Sec. to Minister for Education, (both positions until 24.10.1956 - appointed as Minister for the Gaeltacht)
Note
Inter-party Government comprising of Fine Gael, Labour, Clann na Talmhúain & Clann na Pobhlachta.
