Update 16:10

Frances Fitzgerald has been announced as the new Minister for Justice and Equality.

Minister Fitzgerald will be moving from her position as the first Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. She was appointed to that position by Enda Kenny in March 2011. Charlie Flanagan has been appointed as her successor in that role.

The ministers received their seals of office at Áras an Uachtaráin earlier this afternoon. The seals were presented by the Presidential Commission as President Higgins is on an official visit to the US.

Ms Fitzgerald is a TD in the Dublin Mid West constituency. She served as a TD between 1992 and 2002, and was re-elected to the Dáil in the 2011 elections with over 9,000 first preference votes.

Between 2007 and 2011 she served as the leader of Fine Gael in Seanad Éireann.

She has been Fine Gael spokesperson in a number of different areas, including Equality, Opportunity and Family Affairs, Social, Community and Family Affairs, Defence and Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht.

Before she started her political career, Ms Fitzgerald was a social worker in inner city Dublin and London. She was also the chairperson of the National Women's Council between 1988 and 1992.

She has three sons with her husband Michael.

Enda Kenny announced the nomination of Fitzgerald and Flanagan in the Dáil this morning. The Taoiseach has also temporarily re-assigned the Department of Defence to his own department.

Charlie Flanagan is appointed as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs after serving as the chairperson of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.

He was first elected as a TD for the Laois-Offaly constituency in 1987. He was re-elected in every election until 2002, when he lost his seat. However, he was re-elected again in 2007 and 2011.

Flanagan is the son of the late Oliver J. Flanagan, who was one of the Dáil's longest serving members having spent over 40 years as a TD.

Flanagan has two daughters with his wife Mary.