Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1980

Not more than 15 Ministers of State may be appointed.

2.—Subsection (1) of section 1 of the Act of 1977 is hereby amended by the substitution of “15” for “10”, and the said subsection (1), as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.

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(1) The Government may, on the nomination of the Taoiseach, appoint not more than 15 persons, who are members of either House of the Oireachtas, to be Ministers of State at Departments of State and may at any time, on the recommendation of the Taoiseach, remove a Minister of State so appointed.