Who are our New Government Ministers?

PoolDude

Has anyone got any ideas ahead of the announcements this evening?

aidan_walsh

Something would be seriously wrong if Sargent didn't get the Environment post.

Healey-Rae for Foreign Affairs

funktastic

Sargent has said he's standing down as leader and will only accept a junior ministry.

Gormley will be probably given environment.

aidan_walsh

funktastic wrote:

Sargent has said he's standing down as leader

Oh, I had missed that last night. Well, that sorts that then.

fits

aidan_walsh wrote:

Healey-Rae for Foreign Affairs

Ah I'd love that

Time Magazine

Harney for Health
Gormley for Environment
A.N. Green for another ministry (transport or communications)
Fianna Fáilers getting the rest of the senior positions.

fits

I saw Mary White driving in on the N11 this morning in her biofuel Golf estate. I hope she gets a Junior Ministry...
Its a mad ol' world to be a county counsellor (sp?) one week and in Government the next....

funktastic

For the other green cabinet position, it'd be nice to see Eamon Ryan but it could easily be Mary White/Ciaran Cuffe seeing as Berite will be looking to give a good geographical spread of cabinet members.

Heinrich

Bertie is taoiseach. Long live Bertie.:D

dreamerbeliever

Justice will be interesting, i suspect dermot Ahern will be given it. Otherwise, Harney will get health uunfortunately, Gormley will get environment, Micheal Martin for transport maybe and the rest will be pretty predictable.

gilroyb

For some reason I think it's likely Brian Lenihan will get Justice

Dr Galen

the talk on newstalk was that it will be brian lenihan in Justice. Harney going back to health.

I'd say Gormley will get environment and that Eamon Ryan will pick something up like Arts/Sports or such like.

It'll be interesting to see who next tanaiste is though. I'd have thought Biffo alright, but now I'm not sure.....

Oirthir

nurse_baz wrote:

It'll be interesting to see who next tanaiste is though. I'd have thought Biffo alright, but now I'm not sure.....

I'll be disgusted if Harney gets it back, but given how much the greens gave away, I wouldn't be all that surprised.

I reckon it has to be Cowen though. I mean, with no leader of the Greens, who would they give it to?

carlowboy

Just saw it and Green Party really bent over and took it didn't they?

Dave!

RTÉ are calling out the ministries. I missed them though, except for caught 2 junior ministers......

Dick Roche - minister of state for european affairs
Tom Kitt - chief whip

Oirthir

Cowen - Finance / Tanaiste

Harney - Health

Dempsey - Transport

Lenihan - Justice

Hanafin - Education

Gormley - Enviroment

Ryan - Comms & Energy

Brennan - Arts, Sport & Tourism

Cullen - Welfare

Martin - Enterprise

D Ahern - Foreign Affairs

Coughlan - Agriculture

O Cuiv - Gaeltacht

O'Dea - Guns & Drugs, sorry, Defence

Dave!

Any new ministries created, no? Good to see Lenihan in Justice, he's a great deputy.

nesf

Harney is back in Health and the Greens got the two Ministries closest to the majority of their policy which is a good coup for them. Whatever about people's views on the matters dropped from their manifesto, the environment, our energy policy and local government have been some of their key areas of interest for a long time.

sdanseo

DaveMcG wrote:

Any new ministries created, no?

Agriculture and Food is now Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Transport is now Transport and the Marine

ateam

Well deserved for Lenihan.

2 cabinet positions seem a lot for the Greens.

Oirthir

ateam wrote:

2 cabinet positions seem a lot for the Greens.

Why? They've three times the number of seats as the PDs who got one of the top ministries?

Suff

Lets Hope that Lenihan wont copy McDowell !

ateam

Oirthir wrote:

Why? They've three times the number of seats as the PDs who got one of the top ministries?

But for the last Dail, the PDs had 8 seats and got 2 seats at cabinet. I think one senior and two junior would have been preferable.

ateam

Suff wrote:

Lets Hope that Lenihan wont copy McDowell !

Why what did McDowell wrong in Justice?

Suff

ateam wrote:

Why what did McDowell wrong in Justice?

Its personal !

Darragh29

gilroyb wrote:

For some reason I think it's likely Brian Lenihan will get Justice

Thought this would happen myself. Why do they keep giving this brief to barristers??? WTF would a barrister know about justice???

Darragh29

ateam wrote:

Why what did McDowell wrong in Justice?

He didn't deal with crime. It got worse on his watch and he thankfully has been made take full responsibility for that.

Oirthir

Oirthir wrote:

Why? They've three times the number of seats as the PDs who got one of the top ministries?

Ah come on who would want health??
Also didnt the pd's have 8 seats the last time round , thats 2 more than the greens this time and the pd's didnt have 2 full cabinet positions.
I like the new green minister for communications by the way,I'd expect Eircom wont

Darragh29

Tristrame wrote:

Ah come on who would want health??
Also didnt the pd's have 8 seats the last time round , thats 2 more than the greens this time and the pd's didnt have 2 full cabinet positions.
I like the new green minister for communications by the way,I'd expect Eircom wont

At least hapless Martin Cullen has been moved to a place where he can basically do no more damage. Where has DICK Roche gone to, the Ministry for the Bursting of Balloons???

Oirthir

Tristrame wrote:

Ah come on who would want health??

Well, eh, Mary Harney did. She was offered a move but declined so she could sell public land to private developers so they could profit off the sick and dying.

Tristrame wrote:

the pd's didnt have 2 full cabinet positions.

The PDs didn't have two cabinet positions? Harney had health and Herr McDowell had Justice? Not only are they cabinet, they're pretty high profile?

K-9

Darragh29 wrote:

At least hapless Martin Cullen has been moved to a place where he can basically do no more damage. Where has DICK Roche gone to, the Ministry for the Bursting of Balloons???

Well Seamus Brennan did reasonably well in SW and there was a lot of new plans drawn up e.g. on single parent payment so not too much for him to mess up.:o