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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 20 Jul 1989

Vol. 391 No. 7

Appointment of Ministers of State.

A Cheann Comhairle, I beg leave to announce, for the information of the Dáil, that on 19 July 1989, the Government appointed the following Deputies to be Ministers of State with responsibilities as follows:

Brendan Daly

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach (with special responsibility for Heritage Affairs) and Minister of State at the Department of Finance;

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach (with special responsibility as Co-ordinator of Government Policy and EC matters);

Michael Noonan

Minister of State at the Department of the Marine;

Michael Smith

Minister of State at the Department of Industry and Commerce (with special responsibility for Science and Technology);

Ger Connolly

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment (with special responsibility for Urban Renewal);

Seán Calleary

Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (with special responsibility for Overseas Aid);

Terry Leyden

Minister of State at the Department of Industry and Commerce (with special responsibility for Trade and Marketing);

Joe Walsh

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food (with special responsibility for the Food Industry);

Pat the Cope Gallagher

Minister of State at the Department of the Gaeltacht,

Pádraig Ó Gallchóir

Aire Stáit ag Roinn na Gaeltachta;

Denis Lyons

Minister of State at the Department of Tourism and Transport (with special responsibility for Tourism);

Frank Fahey

Minister of State at the Department of Education (with special responsibility for Youth and Sport);

Noel Treacy

Minister of State at the Department of Health;

Séamus Kirk

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food (with special responsibility for Horticulture), and

Mary Harney

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment (with special responsibility for the Office for the Protection of the Environment).

I should like to ask the Chair to permit me a moment to extend my good wishes to the Minister of State who have been appointed and to wish them success, quite sincerely meant, in the discharge of their functions. I will not comment on the various changes that have come about although I know that one or two of the Ministers of State have moved on to different pastures, perhaps not greener but, certainly, different and I wish them well in their functions.

I wish to congratulate the Minister of State on their appointment.

It is not usual to allow Members to comment on an announcement.

I have just commented.

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