The Department of Finance is a department of the Government of Ireland. It is led by the Minister for Finance.
Metalwork at Department of Finance buildings
The Ministers and Secretaries Acts 1924 to 2020 is the legislation which governs the appointment of ministers to the Government of Ireland and the allocation of functions between departments of state.
Department of Finance (Ireland)
…a Ministry of Finance in the Ministry of Dáil Éireann of the Irish Republic established on 22 January 1919. It was provided a statutory basis by the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, passed soon after the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. This act provided it with: the administration and business generally of the public…
W. T. Cosgrave, whose government drafted the principal act
Dublin Castle, location of the Lord Lieutenant's administration until January 1922; the last remnants of which were swept away with the new Act.