I beg leave to state, for the information of the Dáil,
(1) that, having informed the President of the fact that Dáil Éireann approved my nomination of Deputies to be members of the Government, the President, on the 12th October, 1961, appointed them accordingly;
(2) that, on the same date, I nominated Seán MacEntee to be the Tánaiste;
(3) that, on the same date, I assigned the Departments of State to the members of the Government as follows:—
The Department of Health—Seán MacEntee,
The Department of Finance— James Ryan,
The Department of External Affairs—Frank Aiken,
The Department of Agriculture— Patrick Smith,
The Department of Transport and Power—Erskine H. Childers,
The Department of Industry and Commerce—John Lynch,
The Department of Local Government—Neil T. Blaney,
The Department of Social Welfare —Kevin Boland,
The Department of Lands and the Department of the Gaeltacht —Michael Moran,
The Department of Posts and Telegraphs—Michael Hilliard,
The Department of Education— Patrick J. Hillery,
The Department of Defence— Gerald Bartley and
The Department of Justice— Charles Haughey; and
(4) that, on the same date, the Government appointed the following Deputies to be Parliamentary Secretaries as follows:—
Joseph Brennan—Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach and to the Minister for Defence,
Donogh Brendan O'Malley— Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance, and
Brian Joseph Lenihan—Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Lands.