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| Taoiseach | |
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| Department of the Taoiseach | |
| Style | Taoiseach Irish: A Thaoisigh |
| Member of | |
| Reports to | Oireachtas |
| Residence | Steward's Lodge |
| Seat | Government Buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin, Ireland |
| Nominator | Dáil Éireann |
| Appointer | President of Ireland |
| Term length | While commanding the confidence of the majority of Dáil Éireann. No term limits are imposed on the office. |
| Inaugural holder | Éamon de Valera[note 1] |
| Formation | 29 December 1937 |
| Deputy | Tánaiste |
| Salary | €207,590 annually[1] |
| Website | taoiseach |
The Taoiseach (
i/ˈtiːʃəx/),[2] also referred to as An Taoiseach ([ən t̪ˠiːʃʲəx]),[3] is the head of the government in Ireland. The term prime minister is not used by the Irish media.[4]
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Appointment
When a new Dáil Éireann meets after an election it nominates one of its members to be Taoiseach. He then visits the President, and is appointed. He then presents a list of ministers to the Dáil and when this is approved they are also appointed by the President.
If the Taoiseach resigns all members of the government are said to have resigned as well. If a minister does not resign when asked by the Taoiseach, the Taoiseach can ask the President to sack the minister. The President cannot refuse to do this.[5]
Department of the Taoiseach
The Department of the Taoiseach helps the Taoiseach to do his job. The main duty of the Taoiseach is to start policy and coordinate policy of the rest of government. Especially policies on Economic and Social Development, Northern Ireland, the European Union and Public Sector Change and Oireachtas Reform.
The Government Chief Whip, who has to make sure the government's policies and ideas are turned into law, is a part of the Taoiseach's department.
The current Taoiseach is Leo Varadkar since 14 June 2017.
List
President of the Executive Council | ||||||||||
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) Constituency |
Term of office | Party | Exec. Council Composition |
Vice President | Dáil (elected) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
W. T. Cosgrave (1880–1965) TD for Carlow–Kilkenny until 1927 TD for Cork Borough from 1927 |
6 December 1922[note 2] |
9 March 1932 |
Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty) |
1st | SF (PT) (minority) | Kevin O'Higgins | 3 (1922) | |
| Cumann na nGaedheal | 2nd | CnG (minority) | 4 (1923) | |||||||
| 3rd | Ernest Blythe | 5 (Jun.1927) | ||||||||
| 4th | 6 (Sep.1927) | |||||||||
| 5th | ||||||||||
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=3 |2 | 
|
Éamon de Valera (1882–1975) TD for Clare |
9 March 1932[note 3] |
29 December 1937 |
Fianna Fáil | 6th | FF (minority) | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" rowspan=3 | | Seán T. O'Kelly | 7 (1932) |
| 7th | 8 (1933) | |||||||||
| 8th | 9 (1937) | |||||||||
Taoiseach | ||||||||||
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) Constituency |
Term of office | Party | Government Composition |
Tánaiste | Dáil (elected) | |||
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=4 |(2) |
|
Éamon de Valera (1882–1975) TD for Clare |
29 December 1937 |
18 February 1948 |
Fianna Fáil | 1st | FF (minority) | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" rowspan=3 | | Seán T. O'Kelly | 9 ( ···· ) |
| 2nd | FF | 10 (1938) | ||||||||
| 3rd | FF (minority) | 11 (1943) | ||||||||
| 4th | FF | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Seán Lemass | 12 (1944) | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; color:white;" |3 | .jpg)
|
John A. Costello (1891–1976) TD for Dublin South-East |
18 February 1948 |
13 June 1951 |
Fine Gael | 5th | FG–Lab–CnP–CnT–NL–Ind | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | William Norton | 13 (1948) |
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" |(2) |
|
Éamon de Valera (1882–1975) TD for Clare |
13 June 1951 |
2 June 1954 |
Fianna Fáil | 6th | FF (minority) | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Seán Lemass | 14 (1951) |
| style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; color:white;" |(3) |
|
John A. Costello (1891–1976) TD for Dublin South-East |
2 June 1954 |
20 March 1957 |
Fine Gael | 7th | FG–Lab–CnT | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | William Norton | 15 (1954) |
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" |(2) |
|
Éamon de Valera (1882–1975) TD for Clare |
20 March 1957 |
23 June 1959 |
Fianna Fáil | 8th | FF | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Seán Lemass | 16 (1957) |
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=3 |4 | 
|
Seán Lemass (1899–1971) TD for Dublin South-Central |
23 June 1959 |
10 November 1966 |
Fianna Fáil | 9th | FF | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Seán MacEntee | |
| 10th | FF (minority) | 17 (1961) | ||||||||
| 11th | FF | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" rowspan="2" | | Frank Aiken | 18 (1965) | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=2 |5 | .jpg)
|
Jack Lynch (1917–1999) TD for Cork Borough until 1969 TD for Cork City North-West from 1969 |
10 November 1966 |
14 March 1973 |
Fianna Fáil | 12th | FF | |||
| 13th | FF | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Erskine H. Childers | 19 (1969) | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; color:white;" |6 | 
|
Liam Cosgrave (1920–2017) TD for Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown |
14 March 1973 |
5 July 1977 |
Fine Gael | 14th | FG–Lab | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | Brendan Corish | 20 (1973) |
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" |(5) |
|
Jack Lynch (1917–1999) TD for Cork City |
5 July 1977 |
11 December 1979 |
Fianna Fáil | 15th | FF | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" rowspan="2" | | George Colley | 21 (1977) |
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" |7 | 
|
Charles Haughey (1925–2006) TD for Dublin Artane |
11 December 1979 |
30 June 1981 |
Fianna Fáil | 16th | FF | |||
| style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; color:white;" |8 | .jpg)
|
Garret FitzGerald (1926–2011) TD for Dublin South-East |
30 June 1981 |
9 March 1982 |
Fine Gael | 17th | FG–Lab (minority) | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | Michael O'Leary | 22 (1981) |
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" |(7) |
|
Charles Haughey (1925–2006) TD for Dublin North-Central |
9 March 1982 |
14 December 1982 |
Fianna Fáil | 18th | FF (minority) | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Ray MacSharry | 23 (Feb.1982) |
| style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=2 |(8) |
|
Garret FitzGerald (1926–2011) TD for Dublin South-East |
14 December 1982 |
10 March 1987 |
Fine Gael | 19th | FG–Lab FG (minority) from Jan 1987 |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | Dick Spring | 24 (Nov.1982) |
| style="background-color: Template:Fine Gael/meta/color" | | Peter Barry | |||||||||
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=3 |(7) |
|
Charles Haughey (1925–2006) TD for Dublin North-Central |
10 March 1987 |
11 February 1992 |
Fianna Fáil | 20th | FF (minority) | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" rowspan="2" | | Brian Lenihan | 25 (1987) |
| 21st | FF–PD | 26 (1989) | ||||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | John Wilson | |||||||||
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=3 |9 | Albert Reynolds (1932–2014) TD for Longford–Roscommon |
11 February 1992 |
15 December 1994 |
Fianna Fáil | 22nd | FF–PD FF (minority) from Nov 1992 | ||||
| 23rd | FF–Lab FF (minority) from Nov 1994 |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | Dick Spring | 27 (1992) | ||||||
| style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Bertie Ahern | |||||||||
| style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; color:white;" |10 | 
|
John Bruton (b. 1947) TD for Meath |
15 December 1994 |
26 June 1997 |
Fine Gael | 24th | FG–Lab–DL | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | Dick Spring | |
| rowspan=4 style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" |11 | 
|
Bertie Ahern (b. 1951) TD for Dublin Central |
26 June 1997 |
7 May 2008 |
Fianna Fáil | 25th | FF–PD (minority) | rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Progressive Democrats/meta/color" | | Mary Harney | 28 (1997) |
| 26th | FF–PD | 29 (2002) | ||||||||
| Michael McDowell | ||||||||||
| 27th | FF–Green–PD | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Brian Cowen | 30 (2007) | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" |12 | 
|
Brian Cowen (b. 1960) TD for Laois–Offaly |
7 May 2008 |
9 March 2011 |
Fianna Fáil | 28th | FF–Green–PD FF–Green–Ind from Nov 2009 FF (minority) from Jan 2011 |
style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Mary Coughlan | |
| rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; color:white;" |13 | .jpg)
|
Enda Kenny (b. 1951) TD for Mayo |
9 March 2011 |
14 June 2017[6] |
Fine Gael | 29th | FG–Lab | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | Eamon Gilmore | 31 (2011) |
| style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | Joan Burton | |||||||||
| 30th | FG–Ind (minority) | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Fine Gael/meta/color" | | Frances Fitzgerald | 32 (2016) | ||||||
| rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; color:white;" |14 | 
|
Leo Varadkar (b. 1979) TD for Dublin West |
14 June 2017[7] |
27 June 2020 |
Fine Gael | 31st | FG–Ind (minority) | |||
| Simon Coveney | ||||||||||
| style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; color:white;" |15 | _2020_(cropped).jpg)
|
Micheál Martin (b. 1960) TD for Cork South-Central |
27 June 2020 |
Incumbent | Fianna Fáil | 32nd | FF–FG–Green | style="background-color: Template:Fine Gael/meta/color" | | Leo Varadkar | 33 (2020) |
Notes
- ↑ Before the enactment of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland, the head of government was referred to as the President of the Executive Council. This office was first held by W. T. Cosgrave from 1922 to 1932, and then by Éamon de Valera from 1932 to 1937.
- ↑ Cosgrave also headed the Irish Government from 22 August 1922, during the transitional period before the state became officially independent on 6 December 1922 (See Irish heads of government since 1919).
- ↑ De Valera also headed the pre-independence revolutionary Irish Government from 1 April 1919 to 9 January 1922 (See Irish heads of government since 1919).
References
- ↑ Oireachtas, Houses of the. "Salaries, Houses of the Oireachtas". http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/tdssenators/salariesallowances/salaries/. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ↑ "Taoiseach: definition of Taoiseach in Oxford dictionary (British & World English). Meaning, pronunciation and origin of the word". Oxford University Press. 2013. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/Taoiseach?q=Taoiseach. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ↑ Keeping the Irish definite article an /ən/ instead of English the.
- ↑ "BUNREACHT NA hÉIREANN". http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/upload/static/256.htm. "Article 28.5.1 The head of the Government, or Prime Minister, shall be called, and is in this Constitution referred to as, the Taoiseach."
- ↑ "BUNREACHT NA hÉIREANN". http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/upload/static/256.htm. "Article 28.9.4. The Taoiseach may at any time, for reasons which to him seem sufficient, request a member of the Government to resign; should the member concerned fail to comply with the request, his appointment shall be terminated by the President if the Taoiseach so advises."
- ↑ Kenny's farewell: 'This has never been about me'. RTÉ News. 13 June 2017. https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0613/882267-enda-kenny/. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ↑ Lord, Miriam (8 June 2017). Taoiseach-in-waiting meets man waiting to be taoiseach. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/leo-varadkar-the-man-who-evolved-into-a-taoiseach-1.3106073. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
