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23/03/2010
Reshuffle Results Announced Today
Taoiseach Brian Cowen is expected to announces the details of the awaited limited reshuffle in the Dáil this afternoon.
The Government is currently operating with two vacancies, created by the resignations of Willie O’Dea and Martin Cullen.
Mr Cowen and Green Party leader John Gormley met several times yesterday with sources in both Fianna Fail and the Greens saying that agreement on a second junior minister for the Greens had been reached.
It is understood that Carlow Kilkenny TD Mary White will replace Trevor Sargent as Minister of State for Food while Dún Laoghaire TD Ciarán Cuffe will get the other junior minister post.
Mr Cuffe will not get a “super junior” position with a place at the Cabinet table, initially sought by the Greens, and the party has also agreed to abandon a plan to rotate Mr Cuffe into the Cabinet in place of Mr Gormley.
Minister of State for Fisheries, Tony Killeen, is currently the favourite for promotion to the Cabinet and is expected to take over the Department of Defence portfolio vacated by Willie O’Dea.
The Taoiseach is expected to officially announce the new Cabinet members later today.
(DW/BMcC)
The Government is currently operating with two vacancies, created by the resignations of Willie O’Dea and Martin Cullen.
Mr Cowen and Green Party leader John Gormley met several times yesterday with sources in both Fianna Fail and the Greens saying that agreement on a second junior minister for the Greens had been reached.
It is understood that Carlow Kilkenny TD Mary White will replace Trevor Sargent as Minister of State for Food while Dún Laoghaire TD Ciarán Cuffe will get the other junior minister post.
Mr Cuffe will not get a “super junior” position with a place at the Cabinet table, initially sought by the Greens, and the party has also agreed to abandon a plan to rotate Mr Cuffe into the Cabinet in place of Mr Gormley.
Minister of State for Fisheries, Tony Killeen, is currently the favourite for promotion to the Cabinet and is expected to take over the Department of Defence portfolio vacated by Willie O’Dea.
The Taoiseach is expected to officially announce the new Cabinet members later today.
(DW/BMcC)
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