Minister for Education and Skills







































Minister for Education and Skills

Joe McHugh TD.jpg

Incumbent
Joe McHugh
since 16 October 2018
Department of Education and Skills
Member of

  • Cabinet

  • Council of the European Union

  • Dáil Éireann
Reports to Taoiseach
Seat
Dublin, Ireland
Appointer
President of Ireland on the nomination of the Taoiseach
Inaugural holder
John J. O'Kelly as Minister for Education
Formation 26 August 1921
Website education.ie

The Minister for Education and Skills (Irish: An tAire Oideachais agus Scileanna) is the senior government minister at the Department of Education and Skills in the Government of Ireland.


The current Minister for Education and Skills is Joe McHugh, TD. He is assisted by:




  • John Halligan, TD – Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development


  • Mary Mitchell O'Connor, TD – Minister of State for Higher Education.




Contents






  • 1 Overview


  • 2 List of office-holders


    • 2.1 Minister for Education 1921–1997


    • 2.2 Minister for Education and Science 1997–2010


    • 2.3 Minister for Education and Skills 2010–present




  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Overview


The Minister engages in a wide range of activities relating to education in the Republic of Ireland, including policy planning, quality assurance and the provision of a broad range of services.


The department officially aims to:



  • Promote equity and inclusion

  • Promote lifelong learning

  • Plan for education that is relevant to personal, social, cultural and economic needs.


In recent years some of these functions have been devolved to statutory authorities, in particular the Higher Education Authority, the National Qualifications Authority and the State Examinations Commission. Irish universities and colleges are to a large extent free of government control, with this being largely limited to policy formation and statistics preparation.


Until September 1997 the department was known simply as the "Department of Education" and on 23 March 2010 the department was renamed from Department of Education and Science to its current title.



List of office-holders



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Minister for Education 1921–1997


No.
 Name
 Term of office
 Party
1.
John J. O'Kelly[1]
 26 August 1921
 9 January 1922

Sinn Féin
2.
Michael Hayes[2]
 11 January 1922
 9 September 1922

Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin
3.
Fionán Lynch[2]
 1 April 1922
 30 August 1922

Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin
4.
Eoin MacNeill
 30 August 1922
 24 November 1925

Cumann na nGaedheal
5.
John M. O'Sullivan
 28 January 1926
 9 March 1932

Cumann na nGaedheal
6.
Thomas Derrig (1st time)
 9 March 1932
 8 September 1939

Fianna Fáil
7.
Seán T. O'Kelly
 8 September 1939
 27 September 1939

Fianna Fáil
8.
Éamon de Valera (acting)
 27 September 1939
 18 June 1940

Fianna Fáil


Thomas Derrig (2nd time)
 18 June 1940
 18 February 1948

Fianna Fáil
9.
Richard Mulcahy (1st time)
 18 February 1948
 13 June 1951

Fine Gael
10.
Seán Moylan
 13 June 1951
 2 June 1954

Fianna Fáil


Richard Mulcahy (2nd time)
 2 June 1954
 20 March 1957

Fine Gael
11.
Jack Lynch (1st time)
 20 March 1957
 23 June 1959

Fianna Fáil
12.
Patrick Hillery
 23 June 1959
 21 April 1965

Fianna Fáil
13.
George Colley
 21 April 1965
 13 July 1966

Fianna Fáil
14.
Donogh O'Malley
 13 July 1966
 10 March 1968

Fianna Fáil


Jack Lynch (acting)
 10 March 1968
 26 March 1968

Fianna Fáil
15.
Brian Lenihan
 26 March 1968
 2 July 1969

Fianna Fáil
16.
Pádraig Faulkner
 2 July 1969
 14 March 1973

Fianna Fáil
17.
Richard Burke
 14 March 1973
 2 December 1976

Fine Gael
18.
Peter Barry
 2 December 1976
 5 July 1977

Fine Gael
19.
John Wilson
 5 July 1977
 30 June 1981

Fianna Fáil
20.
John Boland
 30 June 1981
 9 March 1982

Fine Gael
21.
Martin O'Donoghue
 9 March 1982
 6 October 1982

Fianna Fáil
22.
Charles Haughey (acting)
 7 October 1982
 27 October 1982

Fianna Fáil
23.
Gerard Brady
 27 October 1982
 14 December 1982

Fianna Fáil
24.
Gemma Hussey
 14 December 1982
 14 February 1986

Fine Gael
25.
Patrick Cooney
 14 February 1986
 10 March 1987

Fine Gael
26.
Mary O'Rourke
 10 March 1987
 14 November 1991

Fianna Fáil
27.
Noel Davern
 14 November 1991
 11 February 1992

Fianna Fáil
28.
Séamus Brennan
 11 February 1992
 12 January 1993

Fianna Fáil
29.
Niamh Bhreathnach (1st time)
 12 January 1993
 17 November 1994

Labour Party
30.
Michael Smith
 18 November 1994
 15 December 1994

Fianna Fáil


Niamh Bhreathnach (2nd time)
 15 December 1994
 26 June 1997

Labour Party
31.
Micheál Martin
 26 June 1997
 30 September 1997

Fianna Fáil


Minister for Education and Science 1997–2010


No.
 Name
 Term of office
 Party


Micheál Martin
 30 September 1997
 27 January 2000

Fianna Fáil
32.
Michael Woods
 27 January 2000
 6 June 2002

Fianna Fáil
33.
Noel Dempsey
 6 June 2002
 29 September 2004

Fianna Fáil
34.
Mary Hanafin
 29 September 2004
 7 May 2008

Fianna Fáil
35.
Batt O'Keeffe
 7 May 2008
 23 March 2010

Fianna Fáil


Minister for Education and Skills 2010–present


No.
 Name
 Term of office
 Party
36.
Mary Coughlan
 23 March 2010
 9 March 2011

Fianna Fáil
37.
Ruairi Quinn
 9 March 2011
 11 July 2014

Labour Party
38.
Jan O'Sullivan
 11 July 2014
 6 May 2016

Labour Party
39.
Richard Bruton
 6 May 2016
 16 October 2018

Fine Gael
40.
Joe McHugh
 16 October 2018
Incumbent

Fine Gael


See also


  • Irish cabinets since 1919


References





  1. ^ John J. O'Kelly bore the title of Secretary for Education.


  2. ^ ab The terms of office of Michael Hayes and Fionán Lynch overlap. This is because they were ministers under two different but overlapping political systems. Michael Hayes was a member of the Ministry of the Irish Republic, while Fionán Lynch was a minister of the Provisional Government. For a period in 1922 an anomalous situation existed in which these two administrations overlapped.




External links


  • Department of Education and Skills







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