Enda Kenny has named 15 new junior ministers - increasing the total number to 18.
11 of the new appointments are ministers for the first time, with independents John Halligan and Sean Canney joining 13 TDs from Fine Gael.
In the new appointments the Taoiseach has opted against demoting any of his outgoing junior ministers - but added three more positions to make room for new faces.
The biggest promotion is for Eoghan Murphy, who moves from the back benches into a role at the Department of Finance.
Just three of the 15 new ministers are women - Helen McEntee, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy and Catherine Byrne - although every woman who retained a seat in Fine Gael now holds ministerial rank of some sort.
Other new promotions include Sean Kyne of Galway East, Pat Breen from Clare, and Patrick O'Donovan of Limerick.
But Waterford's John Deasy loses out - and will have to sit on the backbenches while his independent constituency colleague John Halligan joins the Department of Jobs.
The other new independent minister Sean Canney, will take charge at the Office of Public Works - with responsibility for flood relief.
The appointments mean Fine Gael now has 27 ministers, and only 23 backbenchers - and also means Fine Gael holds more ministerial positions now, having suffered badly in the general election, than it did beforehand (24).
The new ministers
- Pat Breen (Clare, FG) – Employment and Small Business
- Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, FG) – Communities and National Drugs Strategy
- Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Offaly, FG) – Health Promotion
- Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, FG) – Agriculture (Food and Forestry)
- Damien English (Meath West, FG) - Housing and Urban Renewal
- Sean Kyne (Galway West, FG) - Gaeltacht Affairs and Natural Resources
- Dara Murphy (Cork North Central, FG) - EU Affairs and Data Protection
- Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, FG) – Finance
- Helen McEntee (Meath East, FG) – Mental Health and Older People
- Joe McHugh (Donegal, FG) – Diaspora and Overseas Development Aid
- Patrick O’Donovan (Limerick, FG) – Tourism and Sport
- Michael Ring (Mayo, FG) - Rural Economic Development
- David Stanton (Cork East, FG) – Justice (Equality and Integration)
- Sean Canney (Galway East, Ind) – OPW and Flood Relief
- John Halligan (Waterford, Ind) – Training and Skills
