By early Tuesday evening, the Fine Gael leader will have likely become taoiseach and formed his new cabinet
Outgoing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will resign on Monday evening but carry on his until his successor has been appointed by the President on Tuesday. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Imagesresigns as Taoiseach on Monday evening, travelling to Áras an Uachtaráin and formally placing his resignation in the hands of President
Tuesday’s business in the Dáil begins earlier than usual, at 10.30am. All normal business is suspended – the election of a new taoiseach takes precedence over everything. Harris will be proposed and seconded by members of his own party. That will be followed by speeches from the leaders ofsupporting Harris’s nomination for taoiseach and then by speeches from the leaders of all the Opposition parties and Independent groups .
The new taoiseach will return to Government Buildings, where he will begin the difficult process of notifying his cabinet: in or out. Typically, Ministers are shuffled in and out of the new Taoiseach’s office, having been summoned by his staff to come across from Leinster House to Government Buildings via the so-called “bridge of sighs” – an elevated glass walkway between the two buildings. Most taoisigh say they hate this part of the job. There’s never enough cabinet positions to go around.
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