President of the Executive
Council and such Ministers shall continue to carry on their duties until
their successors are appointed.

ARTICLE 52.

Ministers who are not members of the Parliament/Oireachtas shall be
nominated by a Committee of members of the Chamber/Dail Eireann chosen by
a method to be determined by the Chamber/Dail so as to be impartially
representative of the Chamber/Dail. Such Ministers shall be chosen with
due regard to their suitability for office and should as far as possible
be generally representative of the Irish Free State/Saorstat Eireann as a
whole rather than of groups or of parties. Should a nomination not be
acceptable to the Chamber/Dail, the Committee shall continue to propose
names until one is found acceptable.

ARTICLE 53.

Each Minister not a member of the Parliament/Oireachtas shall be the
responsible head of the Executive Department or Departments as head of
which he has been appointed as aforesaid; Provided that should
arrangements for Functional or Vocational Councils be made by the
Parliament/Oireachtas these Ministers or any of them may, should the
Parliament/Oireachtas so decide, be members of and be nominated on the
advice of such Councils. The term of office of any such Minister shall be
the term of the Chamber/Dail Eireann existing at the time of his
appointment or such other period as may be fixed by law, but he shall
continue in office until his successor shall have been appointed: and no
such Minister shall be removed from Office during his term unless the
proposal to remove him has been previously submitted to a Committee chosen
by a method to be determined by the Chamber/Dail so as to be impartially
representative of the Chamber/Dail and then only if the Committee shall
have reported that such Minister has been guilty of malfeasance in office
or has not been performing his duties in a competent and satisfactory
manner, or has failed to carry out the lawfully-expressed will of
Parliament/Oireachtas.

ARTICLE 54.

The Ministers who are members of the Parliament/Oireachtas shall alone be
responsible for all matters relating to external affairs whether policy,
negotiations, or executive acts. Subject to the foregoing provisions, the
Executive Council shall meet and act as a collective authority: Provided,
however, that each Minister shall be individually responsible to the
Chamber/Dail Eireann for the administration of the Department or
Departments of which he is h