Department of Finance (Ireland)

Department of Finance
Department overview
Formed 22 January 1919
Jurisdiction Ireland
Headquarters Government Buildings,
Merrion Street, Dublin 2
53°20′21″N 6°15′13″W / 53.33917°N 6.25361°W / 53.33917; -6.25361
Minister responsible
Department executive
Website www.finance.gov.ie

The Department of Finance (Irish: An Roinn Airgeadais) is a department of the Government of Ireland. It is led by the Minister for Finance and is assisted by one Minister of State.

The Department of Finance is responsible for the administration of the public finances of the Republic of Ireland and all powers, duties and functions connected with the same, including in particular, the collection and expenditure of the revenues of Ireland from whatever source arising.

Departmental team

Overview

Government Buildings, Dublin, is the location of the Department of Finance.

The official headquarters and ministerial offices of the department are in Government Buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin 2. The Department of Finance has a central role in implementing Irish Government policy, in particular the Programme for Government, and in advising and supporting the Minister for Finance and the Government on the economic and financial management of the State and the overall management and development of the public sector. According to the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 the Department of Finance is responsible for ".... the administration and business generally of the public finance of Ireland and all powers, duties and functions connected with the same, including in particular, the collection and expenditure of the revenues of Ireland from whatever source arising...."

A government order in 1980 allocated additional functions to the Department of Finance. These functions are principally to promote and coordinate economic and social planning, including sectoral and regional planning, to identify development policies, to review the methods adopted by departments of state to implement such policies and generally to advise the government on economic and social planning matters. Under a government order of March 1987, the functions of the former Department of the Public Service were also transferred to the Department of Finance.

There are a number of divisions within the Department of Finance. They are:

Secretaries of the Department

No. Name Term of office
1.William O'BrienFebruary 192221 February 1923
2.Joseph Brennan22 February 192320 September 1927
3.James J. McElligott21 September 192731 March 1953
4.Owen J. Redmond1 April 195329 May 1956
5.T. K. Whitaker30 May 195628 February 1969
6.Charles H. Murray1 March 196929 February 1976
7.M.N. Ó Murchú1 March 197617 October 1977
8.Tomás F. Ó Cofaigh18 October 197731 October 1981
9.Maurice F. Doyle1 November 198130 April 1987
10.Seán P. Cromien1 May 198712 June 1994
11.Paddy Mullarkey13 June 19941 September 1997
No. Name Term of office
Paddy Mullarkey2 September 19979 March 2000
12.John Hurley10 March 200010 March 2002
13.Tom Considine11 March 200230 June 2006
14.David Doyle1 July 200629 January 2010
15.Kevin Cardiff1 February 20102 February 2012
16.John Moran6 March 20127 May 2014
17.Derek Moran3 July 2014Incumbent

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