I have to announce that, pursuant to my nomination, assented to by the Dáil, his Excellency the Governor-General has appointed the following Deputies to be Ministers and to be members of the Executive Council:—
Deputy Ernest Blythe, Vice-President, in charge of the Department of Finance and the Department of Posts and Telegraphs;
Deputy Desmond Fitzgerald, in charge of the Department of Defence;
Deputy Patrick Hogan (Galway), in charge of the Department of Agriculture;
Deputy Finian Lynch, in charge of the Department of Lands and Fisheries;
Deputy Richard Mulcahy, in charge of the Department of Local Government and Public Health;
Deputy Patrick McGilligan, in charge of the Department of Industry and Commerce, and the Department of External Affairs;
Deputy John M. O'Sullivan, in charge of the Department of Education;
Deputy James Fitzgerald-Kenney, in charge of the Department of Justice.