The Minister of State at the Department of Transport is a junior ministerial post in the Department of Transport of the Government of Ireland who may perform functions delegated by the Minister for Transport. A Minister of State does not hold cabinet rank.

The Department of Transport and Power was created in 1959; in 1984, as the Department of Transport, it was abolished and its functions were transferred to the Department of Communications. The Department of the Public Service was created in 1973; in 1987, its original functions were transferred to the Department of Finance, and it is the legal predecessor of the current Department of Transport. For this reason, the lists below show overlapping departments.

The current Minister of State is Jack Chambers, TD who was appointed in 2022.[1] Chambers is also Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

List of parliamentary secretaries

Department of Transport and Power 1959–1977[edit]

Name Term of office Party Government
Patrick Lalor 16 November 1966 2 July 1969 Fianna Fáil 12th[2]

Department of Tourism and Transport 1977–1978[edit]

Name Term of office Party Government
Tom Fitzpatrick 5 July 1977 1 January 1978 Fianna Fáil 15th[3]

Department of the Public Service 1973–1978[edit]

Name Term of office Party Government
Patrick J. Reynolds 17 December 1976 25 May 1977 Fine Gael 14th[4]

List of ministers of state

Department of Tourism and Transport 1978–1980[edit]

Name Term of office Party Responsibilities Government
Thomas J. Fitzpatrick 1 January 1978 11 December 1979 Fianna Fáil 15th[5]

Department of Transport 1980–1984[edit]

Name Term of office Party Responsibilities Government
Pádraig Flynn 25 March 1980 30 June 1981 Fianna Fáil 16th[6]
Terry Leyden 23 March 1982 14 December 1982 Fianna Fáil 18th[7]
John Donnellan 16 December 1982 15 December 1983 Fine Gael 19th[8]

Department of the Public Service 1978–1987[edit]

Name Term of office Party Responsibilities Government
Ray MacSharry 1 January 1978 11 December 1979 Fianna Fáil 15th[5][9]
Seán Calleary 12 December 1979 30 June 1981 Fianna Fáil 16th[10]
Jim O'Keeffe 13 February 1986 10 March 1987 Fine Gael 19th[11]

Department of Tourism and Transport 1987–1991[edit]

Name Term of office Party Responsibilities Government
Denis Lyons 31 March 1987 12 July 1989 Fianna Fáil Tourism 20th[12]
19 July 1989 7 February 1991 21st[13][14]
Frank Fahey 26 September 1989 7 February 1991 Fianna Fáil

Department of Tourism, Transport and Communications 1991–1993[edit]

Name Term of office Party Responsibilities Government
Denis Lyons 7 February 1991 11 February 1992 Fianna Fáil Tourism 21st
Frank Fahey 7 February 1991 11 February 1992 Fianna Fáil
Brendan Kenneally 13 February 1992 12 January 1993 Fianna Fáil 22nd[15]

Department of Transport, Energy and Communications 1993–1997[edit]

Name Term of office Party Responsibilities Government
Noel Treacy 14 January 1993 15 December 1994 Fianna Fáil Energy 23rd[16]
Emmet Stagg 20 December 1994 26 June 1997 Labour 24th[17][18]
Avril Doyle 27 January 1995 26 June 1997 Fine Gael Consumers of Public Services

Department of Public Enterprise 1997–2002[edit]

Name Term of office Party Responsibilities Government
Joe Jacob 8 July 1997 6 June 2002 Fianna Fáil Energy 25th[19]

Department of Transport 2002–2011[edit]

Name Term of office Party Responsibilities Government
Jim McDaid 18 June 2002 5 October 2004 Fianna Fáil Road Traffic and Road Haulage 26th[20][21][22]
Ivor Callely 29 September 2004 8 December 2005 Fianna Fáil Traffic Management, Road Haulage and the Irish Aviation Authority
Pat "the Cope" Gallagher 14 February 2006 14 June 2007 Fianna Fáil Traffic Management, Road Haulage and the Irish Aviation Authority
Noel Ahern 13 May 2008 22 April 2009 Fianna Fáil Road Safety 28th[23][24]
Ciarán Cuffe 23 March 2010 23 January 2011 Green Sustainable Travel and Planning

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport 2011–2020[edit]

Name Term of office Party Responsibilities Government
Michael Ring 10 March 2011 6 May 2016 Fine Gael Tourism and Sport 29th
Alan Kelly 10 March 2011 11 July 2014 Labour Public and Commuter Transport
Ann Phelan 15 July 2014 6 May 2016 Labour Rural Transport
Patrick O'Donovan 19 May 2016 14 June 2017 Fine Gael Tourism and Sport 30th[25]
Brendan Griffin 20 June 2017 27 June 2020 Fine Gael Tourism and Sport 31st[26]

Department of Transport 2020–present[edit]

Name Term of office Party Responsibilities Government
Hildegarde Naughton 27 June 2020 17 December 2022 Fine Gael International and Road Transport and Logistics 32nd[27]
Jack Chambers 21 December 2022 Incumbent Fianna Fáil International and Road Transport and Logistics 33rd[28]

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