Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

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The Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs is the senior minister at the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Irish: An Roinn Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta) in the Irish Government. The current Minister is Éamon Ó Cuív, TD; he is assisted by Noel Ahern, Minister of State with special responsibility for Drugs Strategy and Community Affairs.

Contents 1 Overview 2 List of office-holders 2.1 Minister for the Gaeltacht 1956–1993 2.2 Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht 1993–1997 2.3 Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands 1997–2002 2.4 Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs 2002–present 3 See also 4 External link

[edit] Overview

The Minister heads one of Ireland's newest Departments of State, established on 6 June 2002, with some 240 staff in 6 locations: mainly Dublin and Na Forbacha in County Galway.

The Department has specific responsibility for a range of functions including:

• Community Development Programmes
• Local Development
• the RAPID programmes,
• Coordination of the National Drugs Strategy
• Volunteering
• Rural Development initiatives

The Department also retains the responsibilities previously held by the former Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands for

• the Irish language
• the Gaeltacht
• the development of Ireland's inhabited off-shore islands.

[edit] List of office-holders

[edit] Minister for the Gaeltacht 1956–1993

#		Name	Entered Office	Left Office	Party
	1.	Richard Mulcahy	June 2, 1956	October 24, 1956	Fine Gael
	2.	Patrick Lindsay	October 24, 1956	March 20, 1957	Fine Gael
	3.	Jack Lynch	March 20, 1957	June 26, 1957	Fianna Fáil
	4.	Micheál Ó Móráin (1st time)	June 26, 1957	July 23, 1959	Fianna Fáil
	5.	Gerald Bartley	July 23, 1959	October 11, 1961	Fianna Fáil
		Micheál Ó Móráin (2nd time)	October 11, 1961	March 26, 1968	Fianna Fáil
	6.	Pádraig Faulkner	March 27, 1968	July 2, 1969	Fianna Fáil
	7.	George Colley	July 2, 1969	March 14, 1973	Fianna Fáil
	8.	Tom O'Donnell	March 14, 1973	July 5, 1977	Fine Gael
	9.	Denis Gallagher (1st time)	July 5, 1977	December 11, 1979	Fianna Fáil
	10.	Máire Geoghegan-Quinn	December 12, 1979	June 30, 1981	Fianna Fáil
	11.	Paddy O'Toole (1st time)	June 30, 1981	March 9, 1982	Fine Gael
		Denis Gallagher (2nd time)	March 9, 1982	December 14, 1982	Fianna Fáil
		Paddy O'Toole (2nd time)	December 14, 1982	March 10, 1987	Fine Gael
	12.	Charles Haughey	March 10, 1987	February 11, 1992	Fianna Fáil
	13.	John P. Wilson	February 11, 1992	January 12, 1993	Fianna Fáil
	14.	Michael D. Higgins (1st time)	January 12, 1993	January 21, 1993	Labour Party

[edit] Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht 1993–1997

#		Name	Entered Office	Left Office	Party
		Michael D. Higgins (1st time)	January 21, 1993	November 17, 1994	Labour Party
	15.	Bertie Ahern	November 18, 1994	December 15, 1994	Fianna Fáil
		Michael D. Higgins (2nd time)	December 15, 1994	June 26, 1997	Labour Party
	16.	Síle de Valera	June 26, 1997	July 12, 1997	Fianna Fáil

[edit] Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands 1997–2002

#		Name	Entered Office	Left Office	Party
		Síle de Valera	July 12, 1997	June 6, 2002	Fianna Fáil

[edit] Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs 2002–present

#		Name	Entered Office	Left Office	Party
	17.	Éamon Ó Cuív	June 6, 2002	Incumbent	Fianna Fáil

[edit] See also

• Irish cabinets since 1919

[edit] External link

• Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

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