Government of the 33rd Dáil
Government of the 33rd Dáil | |
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32nd Government of Ireland | |
Date formed | 27 June 2020 |
People and organisations | |
President | Michael D. Higgins |
Taoiseach | Micheál Martin |
Tánaiste | Leo Varadkar |
No. of ministers | 15 |
Member parties | |
Status in legislature | Majority (coalition) 84 / 160 (53%)
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Opposition cabinet | Sinn Féin Front Bench |
Opposition party | Sinn Féin |
Opposition leader | Mary Lou McDonald |
History | |
Election | 2020 general election |
Legislature terms | 33rd Dáil 26th Seanad |
Budget | 2021 |
Incoming formation | 2020 government formation |
Predecessor | 31st Government |
The Government of the 33rd Dáil or the 32nd Government of Ireland is the government of Ireland which was formed on 27 June 2020, following negotiations on a programme for government for a coalition government of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party that followed the 2020 general election to Dáil Éireann held on 8 February. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin will serve as Taoiseach, with Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar serving as Tánaiste. It has been agreed that the government will last until December 2022, after which the positions will rotate, with Varadkar forming a new government as Taoiseach, and Martin serving as Tánaiste.[1] It is the first time that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have participated in the same government, which Varadkar has suggested signifies the end of what has often been referred to as Civil War politics.[2][3]
32nd Government of Ireland
Nomination of Taoiseach
The members of the 33rd Dáil first met on 20 February. Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan were each proposed for nomination as Taoiseach. None of the four motions were successful. Varadkar announced that he would resign as Taoiseach but that under the provisions of Article 28.11 of the Constitution, the members of the government would continue to carry out their duties until their successors were appointed.[4][5]
On 27 June, the Dáil again debated nominations for the position of Taoiseach. The nomination of Martin was approved by the Dáil.[6] Martin was then appointed as Taoiseach by President Michael D. Higgins.[7][8]
27 June 2020 Nomination of Micheál Martin (FF) as Taoiseach Motion proposed by Norma Foley and seconded by James O'Connor Absolute majority: 81/160[9] | ||
Vote | Parties | Votes |
Yes | Fianna Fáil (37), Fine Gael (35), Green Party (12), Independents (9) | 93 / 160
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No | Sinn Féin (37), Independents (7), Labour Party (6), Social Democrats (6), Solidarity–People Before Profit (5), Aontú (1), Right To Change (1) | 63 / 160
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Abstain | Independents (3) | 3 / 160
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Not voting | Ceann Comhairle (1) | 1 / 160
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Members of the Government
After his appointment as Taoiseach by the president, Micheál Martin proposed the members of the government and they were approved by the Dáil.[8][10][11] They were appointed by the president on the same day.[12][13][14]
Office | Name | Term | Party | |
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Taoiseach | Micheál Martin[a] | 2020–
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Fianna Fáil | |
Tánaiste | Leo Varadkar | 2020– | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color" | | Fine Gael |
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment[b] | ||||
Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications[c] | Eamon Ryan | 2020– | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | Green |
Minister for Transport[d] | ||||
Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media[e] | Catherine Martin | 2020–
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Green | |
Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth[f] | Roderic O'Gorman | 2020–
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Green | |
Minister for Finance | Paschal Donohoe | 2020–
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Fine Gael | |
Minister for Foreign Affairs[g] | Simon Coveney | 2020– | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color" | | Fine Gael |
Minister for Defence | ||||
Minister for Justice[h] | Helen McEntee | 2020–
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Fine Gael | |
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science[i] | Simon Harris | 2020–
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Fine Gael | |
Minister for Rural and Community Development | Heather Humphreys | 2020– | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color" | | Fine Gael |
Minister for Social Protection[j] | ||||
Minister for Education[k] | Norma Foley | 2020–
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Fianna Fáil | |
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage[l] | Darragh O'Brien | 2020–
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Fianna Fáil | |
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine | Barry Cowen | 2020
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Fianna Fáil | |
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform | Michael McGrath | 2020–
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Fianna Fáil | |
Minister for Health | Stephen Donnelly | 2020–
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Fianna Fáil | |
Changes 15 July 2020Following the sacking of Barry Cowen on 14 July 2020.[27][15][28][29] | ||||
Office | Name | Term | Party | |
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine | Dara Calleary | 2020
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Fianna Fáil | |
Changes 2 September 2020Following the resignation of Dara Calleary on 21 August 2020.[30][31][32][33] | ||||
Office | Name | Term | Party | |
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine | Charlie McConalogue | 2020–
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Fianna Fáil |
- ^ Martin served as Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine between the sacking of Cowen on 14 July 2020 and the appointment of Calleary to government on 15 July 2020.[15] He served again from 21 August to 2 September 2020 after the resignation of Calleary.
- ^ On 10 November 2020, the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation was renamed the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.[16]
- ^ On 24 September 2020, the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment was renamed the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.[17]
- ^ On 17 September 2020, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport was renamed the Department of Transport.[18]
- ^ On 30 September 2020, the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht was renamed the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.[19]
- ^ On 15 October 2020, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs was renamed the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.[20]
- ^ On 24 September 2020, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was renamed the Department of Foreign Affairs.[21]
- ^ On 1 November 2020, the Department of Justice and Equality was renamed the Department of Justice.[22]
- ^ On 2 August 2020, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science was established. Harris was a minister without portfolio until that date.[23]
- ^ On 21 October 2020, the Employment Affairs and Social Protection was renamed the Department of Social Protection.[24]
- ^ On 22 October 2020, the Education and Skills was renamed the Department of Education.[25]
- ^ On 30 September 2020, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government was renamed the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.[26]
Attorney General
Paul Gallagher SC was appointed by the president as Attorney General on the nomination of the Taoiseach, a role he had previously served in from 2007 to 2011.[8][13]
Ministers of State
On 27 June 2020, the government on the nomination of the Taoiseach appointed Dara Calleary, TD, Hildegarde Naughton, TD, and Sen. Pippa Hackett as Ministers of State, each of whom attend at cabinet without a vote.[8] Pippa Hackett is the first senator to have been appointed as a Minister of State. On 1 July, the government appointed a further seventeen Ministers of State on the nomination of the Taoiseach.[34][13][14]
Name | Department(s) | Responsibility | Party | |
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Dara Calleary (In attendance at cabinet) |
Taoiseach Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Transport, Tourism and Sport |
Government Chief Whip[35] Gaeltacht and Sport style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | |
Hildegarde Naughton (In attendance at cabinet) |
Transport Environment, Climate and Communications |
International and Road Transport and Logistics Postal Policy and Eircodes style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | |
Pippa Hackett (In attendance at cabinet) |
Agriculture, Food and the Marine | Land Use and Biodiversity
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Green | |
Thomas Byrne | Taoiseach Foreign Affairs |
European Affairs
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Fianna Fáil | |
Patrick O'Donovan | Public Expenditure and Reform | Office of Public Works
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Fine Gael | |
Ossian Smyth | Public Expenditure and Reform | Public Procurement and eGovernment
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #22AC6F;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | |
Green | |
Jack Chambers | Finance | Financial Services, Credit Unions and Insurance
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | |
Josepha Madigan | Education | Special Education and Inclusion
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | |
Martin Heydon | Agriculture, Food and the Marine | Research & Development, Farm Safety and New Market Development
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | |
Anne Rabbitte | Health Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth |
Disability[36][37]
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | |
Colm Brophy | Foreign Affairs | Overseas Development Aid and Diaspora
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | |
Charlie McConalogue | Justice | Law Reform
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | |
Niall Collins | Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science | Skills and Further Education
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Fianna Fáil | |
Joe O'Brien | Rural and Community Development Social Protection |
Community Development and Charities[38]
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #22AC6F;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | |
Green | |
Peter Burke | Housing, Local Government and Heritage | Local Government and Planning[39]
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | |
Malcolm Noonan | Housing, Local Government and Heritage | Heritage and Electoral Reform
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #22AC6F;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | |
Green | |
Robert Troy | Enterprise, Trade and Employment | Trade Promotion[40]
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | |
Damien English | Enterprise, Trade and Employment Social Protection |
Employment Affairs and Retail Businesses[41]
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | |
Mary Butler | Health | Mental Health and Older People[42]
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | |
Frank Feighan | Health | Public Health, Well Being and National Drugs Strategy
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | |
Changes 15 July 2020Following the appointment of Calleary to Government.[28] | ||||
Name | Department(s) | Responsibility | Party | |
Jack Chambers (In attendance at cabinet) |
Taoiseach Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Defence |
Government Chief Whip[43] Gaeltacht[44] and Sport[45] Defence style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | |
Seán Fleming | Finance | Financial Services, Credit Unions and Insurance[46]
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Fianna Fáil | |
Changes 2 September 2020Following the appointment of McConalogue to Government.[31] | ||||
Name | Department(s) | Responsibility | Party | |
James Browne | Justice | Law Reform[47]
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Fianna Fáil |
Events during the government
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Barry Cowen was sacked on 14 July 2020 because of driving offences which he had committed but not disclosed to Micheál Martin prior to his appointment to cabinet.[27] He was replaced by Dara Calleary.
Legislation was passed to allow each of three Ministers of State who attend cabinet meetings to receive an allowance, as previous legislation had provided an allowance for two only.[48] After public dissatisfaction with the proposal, the three ministers of state agreed on 28 July 2020 to share the existing allowance between them, rather than accept the increase.[49]
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Dara Calleary resigned on 21 August 2020 after the fallout from the Oireachtas Golf Society scandal.[30] Phil Hogan resigned as European Commissioner for Trade on 26 August 2020 in response to the same events.[50]
In October 2020, Village magazine published a claim that Leo Varadkar had provided a copy of a confidential document to the head of the National Association of General Practitioners that had been part of negotiations with the Irish Medical Organisation in April 2019 while Taoiseach.[51] Fine Gael issued a statement which described the article as "both inaccurate and grossly defamatory", and while accepting that the provision of the agreement by private channels was "not best practice", said there was nothing unlawful about what had occurred.[52] Sinn Féin tabled a motion of no confidence in the Tánaiste. In response, the Taoiseach moved a motion of confidence, with was carried by a vote of 92 to 65.[53]
See also
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