NEW TAOISEACH ENDA Kenny named his cabinet today, made up of ten Fine Gael TDs and five from the Labour Party.

Kenny also named two ministers of state: Labour’s Willie Penrose, who will have responsibility for Housing and Planning at the Department of the Environment, and Fine Gael’s Paul Kehoe.

Kehoe has been nominated government chief whip and junior minister at the Department of an Taoiseach.

Kenny was expected to announce the other junior ministers next week, but RTÉ’s David McCullagh says they might be made known in the coming days.

The new government is expected to retain 15 junior ministerial positions, despite earlier plans to reduce that number to 12. The Independent reports that Fine Gael will get ten, including the chief whip Kehoe, while Labour will take five, including Penrose’s ‘super junior minister’ post.

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