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Twentieth Dáil (14.3.1973 - 25.5.1977)

Fourteenth Government (14.3.1973 - 5.7.1977)

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)

Notes

  • 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.

Twentieth Dáil (14.3.1973 - 25.5.1977)

Fourteenth Government

(Parliamentary Secretaries)

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)

Reshuffle (16.12.1976) following appointment of Oliver J. Flanagan as 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

Note

Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government.

Twentieth Dáil
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