Minister of State for Research & Development, Farm Safety and New Market Development
The Minister of State for Research & Development, Farm Safety and New Market Development is a junior ministerial post in the Department of Agriculture and the Marine of the Government of Ireland. The office was previously titled Minister of State for Food and Horticulture from 1993 to 2011, Minister of State for Food, Horticulture and Food Safety from 2011 to 2016 and ‘’Minister for Food and Horticulture’’ from 2016 to 2020.
The Minister works together with the senior Minister in this department and has special responsibility for all affairs in relation to food, forestry, horticulture and food safety. The Minister of State does not hold cabinet rank. The current office-holder is Martin Heydon, TD, who was appointed in July 2020.
List of office-holders
Minister of State for Food and Horticulture 1993–2011 | |||||
No. | Name | Term of office | Party | ||
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1. | Brian O'Shea | 14 January 1993 | 19 November 1994 | Labour Party | |
2. | Jimmy Deenihan | 20 December 1994 | 26 June 1997 | Fine Gael | |
3. | Ned O'Keeffe | 8 July 1997 | 17 February 2001 | Fianna Fáil | |
4. | Éamon Ó Cuív | 19 February 2001 | 6 June 2002 | Fianna Fáil | |
5. | Noel Treacy | 19 June 2002 | 29 September 2004 | Fianna Fáil | |
6. | Brendan Smith | 29 September 2004 | 20 June 2007 | Fianna Fáil | |
7. | Trevor Sargent[1] | 20 June 2007 | 23 February 2010 | Green Party | |
8. | Ciarán Cuffe | 23 March 2010 | 23 January 2011 | Green Party | |
Minister of State for Food, Horticulture and Food Safety 2011–2016 | |||||
No. | Name | Term of office | Party | ||
9. | Shane McEntee | 10 March 2011 | 21 December 2012 | Fine Gael | |
10. | Tom Hayes | 5 June 2013 | 5 May 2016 | Fine Gael | |
Minister of State for Food, Forestry and Horticulture 2016–2020 | |||||
No. | Name | Term of office | Party | ||
11. | Andrew Doyle | 6 May 2016 | 27 June 2020 | Fine Gael | |
Minister of State for Research & Development, Farm Safety and New Market Development 2020–present | |||||
No. | Name | Term of office | Party | ||
12. | Martin Heydon | 1 July 2020 | Incumbent | Fine Gael | |
gollark: Talking of great exam systems, I had a computer science exam today at school, and they do them partly on computers (nobody wants to write code on paper).
gollark: Nobody seemed to care or notice when someone found that Intel's ring interconnect thing was usable for similar covert channel stuff *and* actual side channel attacks.
gollark: As the article says, they had a ton of similar issues *anyway*, probably from using existing ARM stuff.
gollark: I don't think the other ARM vendors are anywhere near them.
gollark: I don't like them *in general*, but their CPU design team does very impressive work.
References
- "Sargent resigns as Minister of State". RTÉ News. 23 February 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
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