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Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

Nineteen women have served as cabinet ministers in governments of the Republic of Ireland and its predecessors, the Irish Free State and the Irish Republic. The Government of Ireland is the cabinet that exercises executive authority in the Republic of Ireland. After a 58-year gap between the first and second women ministers, there has been at least one woman in all cabinets since December 1982. No woman has ever been Taoiseach (prime minister), but four women have served as Tánaiste (deputy prime minister). The 31st Government of Ireland was formed in June 2017. As of October 2018 it includes four women as ministers in the cabinet of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: Heather Humphreys, Katherine Zappone, Regina Doherty and Josepha Madigan. No more than four women have served simultaneously in any cabinet, and a 2014 pledge by the then-Taoiseach Enda Kenny to create a gender-balanced cabinet remains unfulfilled. (Full list...)

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