Government of the 31st Dáil

The 31st Dáil first met on 9 March 2011. In the debate on the nomination of Taoiseach, only Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny was proposed.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/vote/dail/31/2011-03-09/1/|title=Nomination of Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=9 March 2011|access-date=16 March 2020|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=20 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320090701/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/vote/dail/31/2011-03-09/1/|url-status=live}} This proposal was carried with 117 votes in favour and 27 votes against, the greatest number of votes cast in the Dáil in favour of the nomination of a candidate for Taoiseach. Kenny was appointed as Taoiseach by president Mary McAleese.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-03-09/10/|title=Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government – Dáil Éireann (32nd Dáil)|date=9 March 2011|access-date=12 August 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=12 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812151119/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-03-09/10/|url-status=live}}

File:Irish Cabinet 2013.jpg

After his appointment by the president, Enda Kenny proposed the members of the government and they were approved by the Dáil.{{r|tapp}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-03-15/4/|title=Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=15 March 2011|access-date=16 March 2020|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=24 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124100935/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-03-15/4/|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|title=Nomination of the Tánaiste; Appointment of Members of Government; Assignment of Departments of State|date=15 March 2011|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2011/march/IR150311.pdf|issue=21|volume=2011|pages=380–381, 383|access-date=10 August 2021|archive-date=10 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810130906/https://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2011/march/IR150311.pdf|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0309/politics.html |title=Enda Kenny reveals new Cabinet |date=9 March 2011 |work=RTÉ News |access-date=10 March 2011 |archive-date=10 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310061842/http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0309/politics.html |url-status=live }}

{| class="wikitable" width=80%

|-

!Office

!Name

!Term

!colspan="2"|Party

|-

|Taoiseach

|Enda Kenny

|2011–2016

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Tánaiste

|rowspan=2|Eamon Gilmore

|rowspan=2|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|rowspan=2|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Minister for Foreign Affairs{{efn|The Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 2 June 2011.{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=246|name=Foreign Affairs (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 |date=24 May 2011|access-date=15 August 2019}}}}

|-

|Minister for Finance

|Michael Noonan

|2011–2016

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Minister for Education and Skills

|Ruairi Quinn

|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|rowspan=2|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform{{efn|The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform was established on 6 July 2011.{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=401|name=Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 (Appointed Day) Order 2011 |date=5 July 2011|access-date=2 April 2021}}}}

|Brendan Howlin

|rowspan=3|2011–2016

|-

|Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation{{efn|The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation was renamed the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on 2 June 2011.{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=245|name=Enterprise, Trade and Innovation (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2014 |date=24 May 2011|access-date=15 August 2019}}}}

|Richard Bruton

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Minister for Social Protection

|Joan Burton

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht{{efn|The Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport was renamed the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on 2 June 2011.{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=220|name=Tourism, Culture and Sport (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 |date=10 May 2011|access-date=15 August 2019}}}}

|Jimmy Deenihan

|rowspan=3|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

|Pat Rabbitte

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government{{efn|The Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government was renamed the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government on 2 May 2011.{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=193|name=Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 |date=19 April 2011|access-date=15 August 2019}}}}

|Phil Hogan

|rowspan=7 style="background-color: {{party color|Fine Gael}};" |

|rowspan=7|Fine Gael

|-

|Minister for Justice and Equality{{efn|The Department of Justice and Law Reform was renamed the Department of Justice and Equality on 2 April 2011.{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=138|name=Justice and Law Reform (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 |date=29 March 2011|access-date=15 August 2019}}}}

|rowspan=2|Alan Shatter

|rowspan=2|2011–2014

|-

|Minister for Defence

|-

|Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine{{efn|The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was renamed the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on 17 October 2011.{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=455|name=Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 |date=8 September 2011|access-date=15 August 2019}}}}

|Simon Coveney

|2011–2016

|-

|Minister for Children and Youth Affairs{{efn|The Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs was renamed the Department of Children and Youth Affairs on 2 June 2011.{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=214|name=Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 |date=10 May 2011|access-date=15 August 2019}}}}

|Frances Fitzgerald

|rowspan=3|2011–2014

|-

|Minister for Health{{efn|The Department of Health and Children was renamed the Department of Health on 4 June 2011.{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=219|name=Health (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011|date=10 May 2011|access-date=15 August 2019}}}}

|James Reilly

|-

|Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport{{efn|The Department of Transport was renamed the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport on 2 April 2011.{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=141|name=Transport (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011|date=29 March 2011|access-date=15 August 2019}}}}

|Leo Varadkar

|-

|colspan=5|

Following the resignation of Alan Shatter on 7 May.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-05-07/22/|title=Termination of Ministerial Appointment: Announcement by Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil) – Vol. 840 No. 2|date=7 May 2014|website=Oireachtas|access-date=7 December 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-05-08/15/|title=Nomination of Member of Government: Motion – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=8 May 2014|website=Oireachtas|access-date=12 August 2019|archive-date=12 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812151117/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-05-08/15/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-05-13/19/|title=Appointment of Ministers – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=13 May 2014|website=Oireachtas|access-date=16 March 2020|archive-date=23 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923041336/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-05-13/19/|url-status=live}}

|-

|Minister for Justice and Equality

|Frances Fitzgerald

|2014–2016

|rowspan=3 style="background-color: {{party color|Fine Gael}};" |

|rowspan=3|Fine Gael

|-

|Minister for Defence

|Enda Kenny (acting)

|2014

|-

|Minister for Children and Youth Affairs

|Charles Flanagan

|2014

|-

|colspan=5|

Following the election of Joan Burton as leader of the Labour Party, Eamon Gilmore, Pat Rabbitte and Ruairi Quinn resigned from cabinet. Phil Hogan resigned on his nomination as European Commissioner.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-07-11/10/|title=Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=11 July 2014|website=Oireachtas|access-date=12 August 2019|archive-date=12 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812151117/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-07-11/10/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-07-15/16/|title=Appointment of Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=15 July 2014|website=Oireachtas|access-date=16 March 2020|archive-date=28 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028205249/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-07-15/16/|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|title=Resignation of Members of the Government; Appointment of Members of the Government/Assignment of Departments of State|date=18 July 2014|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2014/july/Ir180714.PDF|issue=57|volume=2014|pages=1078–1080|access-date=10 August 2021|archive-date=10 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810082617/https://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2014/july/Ir180714.PDF|url-status=live}}

|-

|Tánaiste

|Joan Burton

|rowspan=10|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Minister for Defence

|Simon Coveney

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Minister for Children and Youth Affairs

|James Reilly

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Minister for Health

|Leo Varadkar

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade

|Charles Flanagan

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

|Alex White

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Minister for Education and Skills

|Jan O'Sullivan

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government

|Alan Kelly

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport

|Paschal Donohoe

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

|Heather Humphreys

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|}

;Changes to departments

{{notelist}}

On 9 March 2011, Máire Whelan SC was appointed as Attorney General by the president on the nomination of the Taoiseach.{{cite journal|title=Appointment of the Attorney General|date=22 March 2011|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2011/march/Ir220311.pdf|issue=21|volume=2011|pages=380|access-date=10 August 2021|archive-date=1 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901071907/https://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2011/march/Ir220311.pdf|url-status=live}}{{r|tapp}}{{r|mapp}}

On 9 March 2011, Paul Kehoe and Willie Penrose were appointed by the government on the nomination of the Taoiseach as ministers of state who would attend cabinet without a vote.{{r|tapp}} On 10 March 2011, the government on the nomination of the Taoiseach appointed 13 further ministers of state.{{cite web|url=http://www.merrionstreet.ie/index.php/2011/03/government-appoints-ministers-of-state/|title=Government appoints Ministers of State|work=MerrionStreet.ie|date=10 March 2011|access-date=17 July 2020|archive-date=15 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015121456/http://www.merrionstreet.ie/index.php/2011/03/government-appoints-ministers-of-state/|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|title=Appointment of Ministers of State|date=22 March 2011|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2011/march/Ir220311.pdf|issue=23|volume=2011|pages=402–403|access-date=10 August 2021|archive-date=1 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901071907/https://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2011/march/Ir220311.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-03-15/4/|title=Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=15 March 2011|access-date=28 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=24 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124100935/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-03-15/4/|url-status=live}}

{| class="wikitable" width=85%

|-

!Name

!Department(s)

!Responsibility

!Term

!colspan=2|Party

|-

|Paul Kehoe
{{nowrap|{{small|(In attendance at cabinet)}}}}

|Taoiseach{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=157|name=Statistics (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 19 |date=22 March 2011|access-date=2 April 2021}}
Defence{{cite Irish legislation|year=2014|type=si|number=307|name=Defence (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014|date=24 June 2014|access-date=2 April 2021}}

|Government Chief Whip
Defence

|2011–2016

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Willie Penrose
{{small|(In attendance at cabinet)}}

|Environment, Community and Local Government{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=311|name=Environment, Community and Local Government (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2011|date=14 June 2011|access-date=7 April 2021}}

|Housing and Planning

|2011

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Dinny McGinley

|Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=427|name=Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2011|date=126 July 2011|access-date=7 April 2021}}; {{cite Irish legislation|year=2013|type=si|number=94|name=Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2013|date=19 February 2013|access-date=3 April 2021}}

|Gaeltacht Affairs

|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Róisín Shortall

|Health{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=493|name=Health (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2011|date=27 September 2011|access-date=7 April 2021}}

|Primary care

|2011–2012

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|John Perry

|Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=241|name=Enterprise, Trade and Innovation (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 5) Order 2011|date=24 May 2011|access-date=7 April 2021}}

|Small Business

|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Michael Ring

|Transport, Tourism and Sport

|Tourism and Sport

|2011–2016

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Jan O'Sullivan

|Foreign Affairs and Trade

|Trade and Development

|2011

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Kathleen Lynch

|Justice and Equality
Health{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=492|name=Health (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2011|date=27 September 2011|access-date=7 April 2021}}

|Disability, Equality and Mental Health

|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Fergus O'Dowd

|Environment, Community and Local Government
Communications, Energy and Natural Resources{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=631|name=Energy and Natural Resources (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2011|date=6 December 2011|access-date=7 April 2021}}

|NewERA ProjectGovernment economic stimulus plan

|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Brian Hayes

|Public Expenditure and Reform
Finance

|Public Service Reform and the Office of Public Works

|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Shane McEntee

|Agriculture, Food and the Marine{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=283|name=Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2011|date=14 June 2011|access-date=7 April 2021}}

|Food, Horticulture and Food Safety

|2011–2012

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Lucinda Creighton

|Taoiseach
Foreign Affairs and Trade

|European Affairs

|2011–2013

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Seán Sherlock

|Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=241|name=Enterprise, Trade and Innovation (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 4) Order 2011|date=24 May 2011|access-date=7 April 2021}}
Education and Skills

|Research and Innovation

|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Ciarán Cannon

|Education and Skills{{cite Irish legislation|year=2011|type=si|number=379|name=Education and Skills (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2011|date=31 May 2011|access-date=7 April 2021}}

|Training and Skills

|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Alan Kelly

|Transport, Tourism and Sport

|Public and Commuter Transport

|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|colspan=6|

Following the resignation of Willie Penrose on 15 November 2011.{{cite journal|title=Resignation of Minister of State|date=18 November 2011|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2011/november/IR181111.pdf|issue=92|volume=2011|pages=1595|access-date=18 August 2021|archive-date=16 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116003933/http://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2011/november/IR181111.pdf|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|title=Appointment of Minister of State|date=10 January 2012|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2012/january/Ir100112.pdf|issue=3|volume=2012|pages=64|access-date=18 August 2021|archive-date=1 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901071532/https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2012/january/Ir100112.pdf|url-status=live}}

|-

|Jan O'Sullivan
{{small|(In attendance at cabinet)}}

|Environment, Community and Local Government{{cite Irish legislation|year=2012|type=si|number=148|name=Environment, Community and Local Government (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2012|date=8 May 2012|access-date=3 April 2021}}; {{cite Irish legislation|year=2013|type=si|number=375|name=Environment, Community and Local Government (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2013|date=18 September 2013|access-date=3 April 2021}}

|Housing and Planning

|{{nowrap|2011–2014}}

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Joe Costello

|Foreign Affairs and Trade

|Trade and Development

|2011–2014

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|colspan=6|

Following the resignation of Róisín Shortall on 26 September 2012.{{cite journal|title=Resignation of Minister of State|date=28 September 2012|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2012/september/Ir280912.pdf|issue=78|volume=2012|pages=1429|access-date=18 August 2021|archive-date=18 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818083010/https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2012/september/Ir280912.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-09-27/2/|title=Resignation of Minister of State: Statement – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=27 September 2012|access-date=28 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=28 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928104429/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-09-27/2/|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|title=Appointment of Minister of State|date=9 October 2012|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2012/october/Ir091012.pdf|issue=81|volume=2012|pages=1482|access-date=18 August 2021|archive-date=18 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818083011/https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2012/october/Ir091012.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-10-02/16/|title=Ministerial Appointment: Announcement by Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=2 October 2012|access-date=28 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=10 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110065805/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-10-02/16/|url-status=live}}

|-

|Alex White

|Health{{cite Irish legislation|year=2012|type=si|number=553|name=Health (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2012|date=18 December 2012|access-date=3 April 2021}}

|Primary care

|{{nowrap|2012–2014}}

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|colspan=6|

Following the death of Shane McEntee on 21 December 2012.{{cite journal|title=Appointment of Ministers of State|date=14 June 2013|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2013/june/Ir140613.pdf|issue=48|volume=2013|pages=752|access-date=18 August 2021|archive-date=18 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818080611/https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2013/june/Ir140613.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-06-11/19/|title=Appointment of Minister of State – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=11 June 2013|access-date=28 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=28 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928104430/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-06-11/19/|url-status=live}}

|-

|Tom Hayes

|Agriculture, Food and the Marine{{cite Irish legislation|year=2013|type=si|number=371|name=Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2013|date=24 September 2013|access-date=3 April 2021}}

|Forestry, Horticulture, the Greyhound Industry and Food Safety

|{{nowrap|2013–2016}}

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|colspan=6|

Following the resignation of Lucinda Creighton on 11 July 2013.{{cite journal|title=Appointment of Minister of State; Resignation of Minister of State|date=26 July 2013|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2013/july/Ir260713.pdf|issue=60|volume=2013|pages=908|access-date=18 August 2021|archive-date=16 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116001723/http://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2013/july/Ir260713.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-07-16/19/|title=Appointment of Minister of State: Announcement by Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=16 July 2013|access-date=28 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=28 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928104428/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-07-16/19/|url-status=live}}

|-

|Paschal Donohoe

|Taoiseach
Foreign Affairs and Trade

|European Affairs

|{{nowrap|2013–2014}}

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|colspan=6|

Following the appointment of Jan O'Sullivan to cabinet and the demotion of Jimmy Deenihan from cabinet.{{r|15jul14}}{{cite journal|title=Appointment of Ministers of State|date=5 August 2014|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2014/august/Ir050814.pdf|issue=62|volume=2014|pages=1172|access-date=10 August 2021|archive-date=16 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116000405/http://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2014/august/Ir050814.pdf|url-status=live}}

|-

|Ged Nash
{{small|(In attendance at cabinet)}}

|Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation{{cite Irish legislation|year=2014|type=si|number=545|name=Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014|date=25 November 2014|access-date=2 April 2021}}; {{cite Irish legislation|year=2015|type=si|number=426|name=Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2015|date=6 October 2015|access-date=2 April 2021}}

|Business and Employment

|{{nowrap|2014–2016}}

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Jimmy Deenihan

|Taoiseach
Foreign Affairs and Trade

|Diaspora

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|colspan=6|

Brian Hayes was elected as an MEP on 23 May. Dinny McGinley, John Perry, Fergus O'Dowd, Ciarán Cannon and Joe Costello resigned on the request of the party leaders to facilitate a wider reshuffle.{{r|15jul14}}{{cite web|url=https://merrionstreet.ie/en/News-Room/News/government-decision-in-relation-to-ministers-of-state.60605.shortcut.html|title=New Ministers of State Appointed|work=MerrionStreet.ie|date=15 July 2014|access-date=28 September 2019|archive-date=28 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928104430/https://merrionstreet.ie/en/News-Room/News/government-decision-in-relation-to-ministers-of-state.60605.shortcut.html|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|title=Appointment of Ministers of State|date=5 August 2014|journal=Iris Oifigiúil|url=https://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2014/august/Ir050814.pdf|issue=62|volume=2014|pages=1172–1173|access-date=10 August 2021|archive-date=16 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116000405/http://irisoifigiuil.ie/archive/2014/august/Ir050814.pdf|url-status=live}}

|-

|Kathleen Lynch

|Health{{cite Irish legislation|year=2014|type=si|number=532|name=Health (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014|date=25 November 2014|access-date=2 April 2021}}

|Primary Care, Mental Health and Disability

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Seán Sherlock

|Foreign Affairs and Trade

|Overseas Development Assistance, Trade Promotion and North/South Cooperation

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Damien English

|Education and Skills{{cite Irish legislation|year=2014|type=si|number=481|name=Education and Skills (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014|date=14 October 2014|access-date=2 April 2021}}
Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation{{cite Irish legislation|year=2014|type=si|number=547|name=Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2014|date=25 November 2014|access-date=2 April 2021}}

|Skills, Research and Innovation

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Joe McHugh

|Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht{{cite Irish legislation|year=2015|type=si|number=40|name=Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2015|date=3 February 2015|access-date=2 April 2021}}
{{nowrap|Communications, Energy and Natural Resources{{cite Irish legislation|year=2014|type=si|number=585|name=Energy and Natural Resources (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014|date=16 December 2014|access-date=2 April 2021}}}}

|Gaeltacht Affairs and Natural Resources

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Paudie Coffey

|Environment, Community and Local Government{{cite Irish legislation|year=2014|type=si|number=524|name=Environment, Community and Local Government (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014|date=18 November 2014|access-date=2 April 2021}}

|Housing, Planning and Construction 2020 Strategy

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Simon Harris

|Finance
Public Expenditure and Reform
Taoiseach

|Office of Public Works, Public Procurement and International Banking

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|Kevin Humphreys

|Social Protection{{cite Irish legislation|year=2014|type=si|number=421|name=Social Protection (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2014|date=23 September 2014|access-date=2 April 2021}}; {{cite Irish legislation|year=2015|type=si|number=281|name=Social Protection (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2015|date=30 June 2015|access-date=2 April 2021}}; {{cite Irish legislation|year=2015|type=si|number=549|name=Social Protection (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2015|date=1 December 2015|access-date=2 April 2021}}

|Employment, Community and Social Support

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Dara Murphy

|Taoiseach
Foreign Affairs and Trade
Justice and Equality{{cite Irish legislation|year=2015|type=si|number=265|name=Justice and Equality (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2015|date=23 June 2015|access-date=2 April 2021}}

|European Affairs and Data Protection

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}

|-

|{{nowrap|Aodhán Ó Ríordáin}}

|Justice and Equality{{cite Irish legislation|year=2015|type=si|number=32|name=Justice and Equality (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2015|date=27 January 2015|access-date=2 April 2021}}
Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

|New communities, culture and equality

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|Ann Phelan

|Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Transport, Tourism and Sport

|Rural economic development and rural transport

|2014–2016

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|-

|colspan=6|

Additional responsibilities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-04-23/20/|title=Appointment of Minister of State – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=23 April 2015|access-date=2 April 2021|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=23 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023010646/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-04-23/20/|url-status=live}}

|-

|Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

|Health{{cite Irish legislation|year=2015|type=si|number=308|name=Health (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2015|date=14 July 2015|access-date=2 April 2021}}

|Drugs strategy

|2015–2016

| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}

|}

The Economic Management Council was a cabinet subcommittee of senior ministers formed to co-ordinate the response to the Irish financial crisis and the government's dealings with the troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.{{Cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0409/1224294304964.html |title=State's most senior civil servant to step down |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=27 September 2013 |archive-date=23 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023155854/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0409/1224294304964.html |url-status=live }} Its members were the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.{{cite web|url=http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/Taoiseach_and_Government/Cabinet_Committees/Economic_Management_Council_for_attachment_.html|title=Economic Management Council|publisher=Department of the Taoiseach|access-date=27 September 2013|archive-date=17 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017114037/http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/Taoiseach_and_Government/Cabinet_Committees/Economic_Management_Council_for_attachment_.html|url-status=live}} It was supported by the Department of the Taoiseach, led by Dermot McCarthy.{{r|it1224294304964}}{{cite web|url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail2013092400058?opendocument#WRF02350|title=Cabinet Committee Meetings|date=24 September 2013|work=Dáil debates|publisher=Oireachtas|access-date=27 September 2013|archive-date=1 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001060718/http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail2013092400058?opendocument#WRF02350|url-status=live}} Brigid Laffan compared it to a war cabinet.{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/economic-management-council-acts-as-a-war-cabinet-in-ireland-s-fight-for-survival-1.1507361|title=Economic Management Council acts as a 'war cabinet' in Ireland's fight for survival|last=Laffan|first=Brigid|date=28 August 2013|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=27 September 2013|archive-date=4 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004024512/http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/economic-management-council-acts-as-a-war-cabinet-in-ireland-s-fight-for-survival-1.1507361|url-status=live}} Opposition parties suggested the Council represented a dangerous concentration of power.{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0730/465453-politics-budget/|title=Martin queries constitutionality of Economic Management Council|date=30 July 2013|publisher=RTÉ News|access-date=27 September 2013|archive-date=17 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017134721/http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0730/465453-politics-budget/|url-status=live}}

Following the formation of a government in 2016, Shane Ross, an incoming member of the new 30th Government of Ireland, confirmed in the Dáil that the subcommittee would not form part of the new government. Ross told the Dáil on 6 May 2016: "I had a conversation last night with the Taoiseach. I was talking to him about Dáil reform and I asked him about an issue – a last point I had forgotten to ask about earlier – which was the abolition of the Economic Management Council. I thought it was going to be like one of these thorny topics which we had been through over the last few weeks. He told me okay, it is gone, that it had been needed for a particular time and it is not needed any more and I was to consider it gone. To me that was very encouraging because it meant that one of those obstacles to Dáil reform, one of those rather secretive bodies that had dictated to the Cabinet and to the Dáil the agenda of what came out to the country, was now a thing of the past."{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-05-06/speech/258/|title=Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (Continued) – Dáil Éireann (32nd Dáil)|date=6 May 2016|website=Oireachtas|language=en|access-date=12 August 2019|archive-date=23 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923041403/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-05-06/8/|url-status=live}}

The Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin, delivered the following budgets:

• 2012 budget, on 5 and 6 December 2011
• 2013 budget, on 5 December 2012
• 2014 budget, on 15 October 2013
• 2015 budget, on 14 October 2014
• 2016 budget, on 13 October 2015

On 18 September 2012, Fianna Fáil TD Billy Kelleher proposed a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health, James Reilly.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-09-18/29/|title=Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil) – Vol. 774 No. 1|date=18 September 2012|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=21 November 2022}} The debate was noted for the contribution on the second day of debate of Róisín Shortall, a Minister of State at the Department of Health, who voted with the government, but did not mention the minister.{{cite news |title=Minister Reilly wins confidence motion |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0919/338264-motion-of-no-confidence-debate-taking-place/ |access-date=21 November 2022 |work=RTÉ News |date=19 September 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-09-19/speech/332/|title=Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil) – Vol. 775 No. 1|date=19 September 2012|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=21 November 2022}} Following amendment, this was debated a motion commending the work of the minister, and was approved by a vote of 99 to 50. Those voting against the government included Tommy Broughan and Patrick Nulty, who had been elected as Labour Party TDs, and Denis Naughten, who had been elected as a Fine Gael TD and had left in protest at closure of services at the Roscommon University Hospital.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/vote/dail/31/2012-09-19/2/|title=Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] – 19 September 2012|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=21 November 2022}} Shortall resigned as a junior minister and from the Labour Parliamentary Party the following week.

On 11 December 2012, Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty proposed a motion of no confidence in the government, stating that it had "failed to fulfil its obligations to make political decisions and choices which benefit the citizens of this State".{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-12-11/47/|title=Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil) – Vol. 785 No. 5|date=11 December 2012|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=20 November 2022}} Brendan Howlin, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, proposed an amendment such that the motion read, "That Dáil Éireann has confidence in the Government as it deals with the current economic crisis in as fair a manner as possible, while prioritising economic recovery and job creation".{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-12-11/speech/714/|title=Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil) – Vol. 785 No. 5|date=11 December 2012|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=20 November 2022}} Debate continued the following day.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-12-12/37/|title=Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil) – Vol. 786 No. 2|date=12 December 2012|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=20 November 2022}} The amended motion was carried by a vote of 88 to 51. Those voting against the government included Róisín Shortall.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/vote/dail/31/2012-12-12/4/|title=Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] – 12 December 2012|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=20 November 2022}}

On 1 April 2014, Fiann Fáil TD Niall Collins proposed a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter. Following amendment, this was debated a motion commending the work of the minister.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-04-01/37/|title=Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence: Motion [Private Members] – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil) – Vol. 836 No. 3|date=1 April 2014|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=7 December 2022}} Debate continued on 2 April,{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-04-02/33/|title=Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil) – Vol. 836 No. 4|date=2 April 2014|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=7 December 2022}} and the amended motion was carried by a vote of 95 to 51.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/vote/dail/31/2014-04-02/3/|title=Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] – 2 April 2014|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=20 November 2022}} This was just over a month before Shatter resigned on the submission of the Guerin Report to the Taoiseach.{{cite news |last1=Bohan |first1=Christine |title=Explainer: Why Alan Shatter has resigned |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/why-alan-shatter-resign-1452807-May2014/ |access-date=7 December 2022 |work=TheJournal.ie |date=7 May 2014}}

On 9 December 2014, the Dáil debated a motion of confidence in the Taoiseach and in the government.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-12-09/9/|title=Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil) – Vol. 861 No. 1|date=9 December 2014|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=6 December 2022}} This motion was proposed by Taoiseach Enda Kenny in response to a motion of no confidence proposed by Sinn Féin, which referred to "the widespread public opposition to domestic water charges and to Irish Water".{{cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/thisweek/motions-2014/m051214.pdf |title=Notice of Motion |date=5 December 2014 |work=Dáil motions |publisher=Oireachtas |access-date=16 December 2014 |archive-date=22 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022061902/http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/thisweek/motions-2014/m051214.pdf |url-status=dead }} The vote of confidence was carried by a vote of 86 to 55. Those voting against included Lucinda Creighton, Peter Mathews and Billy Timmins, who had been elected as Fine Gael TDs.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/vote/dail/31/2014-12-09/3/|title=Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion – 9 December 2014|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=6 December 2022}}

On 3 February 2016, Taoiseach Enda Kenny sought a dissolution of the Dáil which was granted by the president, with the new Dáil to convene on 10 March.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-02-03/2/|title=Advice to Dissolve Dáil: Announcement – Dáil Éireann (31st Dáil)|date=3 February 2016|website=Oireachtas|language=en|access-date=17 March 2020|archive-date=22 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022094545/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-02-03/2/|url-status=live}} The general election took place on 26 February.

The 32nd Dáil first met on 10 March 2016. Enda Kenny, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, and Richard Boyd Barrett of the Anti-Austerity Alliance–People Before Profit were each proposed for nomination as Taoiseach. None of the four motions were successful.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-03-10/10/|title=Nomination of Taoiseach – Dáil Éireann (32nd Dáil)|date=10 March 2016|access-date=17 March 2020|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=14 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200914200843/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-03-10/10/|url-status=live}} Kenny announced that he would resign as Taoiseach but that under the provisions of Article 28.11 of the Constitution, the government would continue to carry out their duties until their successors were appointed.Constitution of Ireland, Article 28.11 Kenny continued in this capacity until 6 May 2016, when he was again nominated for the appointment by the president to the position of Taoiseach and formed the 30th Government of Ireland.

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