Sentences with phrase «appointed as minister»

On the 6th of May 2016 Dr. Katherine Zappone T.D. was appointed as the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.

Hunt told those gathered at Frankston that he was honoured to be appointed as Minister for Health, and that his passion for health care was derived to some extent from admiration for his mother and his wife, both of whom were nurses.

Ad hoc announcements Used to announce someone appointed as a Minister who is not already a Lord.

Sam Gyimah, appointed as minister for universities, science, research and innovation just 6 weeks ago, was sympathetic to the concerns about both funding and migration and said the government recognizes their importance.

[13] This allowed him to be appointed as Minister of State for Trade and Investment jointly at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, replacing the Lord Livingston of Parkhead.

This announcement follows a similar one on Tuesday and Wednesday, which saw persons including Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West constituency, Ursula Owusu, the National Women's Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Otiko Afisa Djaba and Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey being appointed as Minister for Communications, Minister for Gender and Social Protection and Foreign Affairs Minister respectively.

He served as Member of Parliament for Tema East from 1996 to 2008, and between that period, he was, first, appointed as Minister of State for Fisheries from 2001 to 2003 by former President John Agyekum Kufuor.

And I will say it openly that, he is not going to be appointed as Minister of the NDC but Minister of Ghana and for Ghanaians.

[78] From the Conservatives, George Osborne became Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Hague was named as Foreign Secretary and Oliver Letwin was appointed as Minister of State for the Cabinet Office.

«In 2010, shortly after I was appointed as Minister of Petroleum Resources, the issue of OPL 245 was brought to my attention.

He was later appointed as Minister of State for Labour in the Federal cabinet.

Mike Penning has been appointed as Minister of State @ukhomeoffice and Minister of State @MoJGovUK #reshuffle

Nick Boles has been appointed as Minister of State jointly for @bisgovuk and @educationgovuk #reshuffle

When I came in as a young member of parliament, it was his appointment as Deputy Minister that got me noticed and he appointed me as Minister of Communications until we left office in 2001, and so, I don't have absolutely anything against President Rawlings,» Mr Mahama said.

In July 2016, David was appointed as a Minister of State in the Department for Exiting the European Union in Theresa May's Government.

He was rewarded by Tony Blair and was appointed as the Minister of State with responsibility for «e-commerce and competitiveness» at the Department of Trade and Industry in June 2001.

Again, I have been in Federal Government committees, but to be appointed as a minister of the Federal Republic, I feel very happy; I feel fulfilled and I thank God that he has brought today.»

Chirac appointed her as Minister of Health in 1974 and she took through the controversial law on abortion.

Before his appointed as Minister of Aboriginal Relations last week, West Yellowhead PC MLA Robin Campbell was seen by some political insiders as a front - runner in this race.

And those people calling for him to come back were the people he appointed as ministers, people he made deputy ministers, they were the people who were chief executive officers of government institutions — they are the people calling him to come back.»

Dr. Rasheed Draman says many of the Parliamentary hopefuls only go to Parliament with the hope of being appointed as ministers of state.

«Our Parliament has become a big waiting room for executive appointment,» he said, adding and when they do not get appointed as ministers they regret ever becoming MPs.

In the cabinet appointed after the 2015 general election, exactly a third of all ministers permitted to attend cabinet were women — although they made up just 20 % of those appointed as ministers of state — the highest rank of junior minister.

[50] Brown advocated a «Government of All the Talents» (GOAT) in which people who had not previously been members of the Labour Party but had expertise in specific areas would be appointed as ministers.

Not exact matches

Newly appointed Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras waves as he leaves the Presidential Palace in Athens, on January 27, 2015.

Running for the Progressive Conservatives, he won a seat in 1986 and was appointed employment minister just as the price of crude plunged and the unemployment rate spiked to 10.4 %.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomes Stephen Poloz as the newly appointed governor of the Bank of Canada on June 3, 2013.

Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.

His election was made possible after Hariri endorsed him for president, based on an understanding that Aoun would then appoint him as prime minister.

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/fp/Jack+Mintz+research+director+pension+reform+task+force/1794203/story.html Even Finance Minister Flaherty should be a bit embarassed to appoint as a «researcher» someone -LSB-...]

The orders - in - council, the official notifications of decisions recommended by the federal cabinet, are numbered 2015 - 1264 and 2015 - 1265 and set out that, pursuant to subsection 7 (1) of the Official Residences Act, two individuals were appointed last week as special assistants at the Prime Minister's residence.

Saudi Aramco has appointed three new members to its board including a woman executive.Saudi Arabian Minister of Finance Mohammed al - Jadaan and Minister of Economy and Planning Mohammed al - Tuwaijri were named as members of the Aramco board of directors.

The great thing about this arrangement is that no matter how you feel about the prime minister of the day, you can be loyal to the Crown, as embodied by whomever the prime minister has appointed to the job.

Macron appoints center - right PM, pledges to overhaul Europe After being sworn in on Sunday, French president Emmanuel Macron on Monday appointed Édouard Philippe as prime minister.

I am proud to announce that I have been appointed as the Shadow Minister for Science.

Jacob Frenkel, chairman of JPMorgan Chase International, was appointed June 23 by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his successor and will return to the post he held in the 1990s.

In July 2016, he was appointed the Minister for the Environment and Energy, having previously served as Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia, Assistant Treasurer and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister since the 2013 election.

It is suspected that Dr. Percy would have been appointed as Finance Minister if the Liberals, led by Laurence Decore, had won the 1993 election.

Take for example Quebec Premier Bernard Landry, who appointed David Levine as a junior health minister in 2002 only to see him lose a by - election shortly afterward.

As I wrote last week, appointing cabinet ministers from outside the Legislature is not entirely unheard of in Canadian politics but it does come with some risks.

-- Jim Silye has been appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as chair of the board of the Museum of Science and Nature in Ottawa.

On Nov. 4, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to appoint one of them to the cabinet as ministe...

In his most recent cabinet shuffle, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed a sitting minister, John McCallum, as the ambassador tMinister Justin Trudeau appointed a sitting minister, John McCallum, as the ambassador tminister, John McCallum, as the ambassador to China.

Jessica Littlewood (NDP — Fort Saskatchewan - Vegreville): Appointed as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Economic Development and Trade with responsibilities for small business, Littlewood is another rising star in the NDP caucus.

As clunky and dysfunctional as the Senate is, experts say a prime minister can not starve the institution to death rather than appoint new memberAs clunky and dysfunctional as the Senate is, experts say a prime minister can not starve the institution to death rather than appoint new memberas the Senate is, experts say a prime minister can not starve the institution to death rather than appoint new members.

In 2011, for instance, KKR appointed Lim Hwee Hua, Singapore's former minister of finance and transport, as a senior adviser.

What you are alluding to as «something deeper» is consistent with what has been perceived by your prime minister leading him to appoint half of the positions in government to be women.

The fact that this authority comes from Christ in no way contradicts a democratic manner of appointing its ministers, nor does it contradict the fact that their decisions are determined by the nature of man as well as by the gospel in such a way that they are not without relation to the will of the Christian people.

Francis has been close to several Protestant ministers over the course of his pontificate, even appointing a Presbyterian minister, Marcelo Figueroa, as editor of the Argentine edition of L'Osservatore Romano.

The Pope appointed Cardinal Jean - Louis Tauran, the Vatican's former Foreign Minister, as president.