The 32nd Dáil was elected at the 2016 general election. The first time it met on 10 March 2016, the Dáil failed to elect a Taoiseach, and Enda Kenny formally resigned, although he continued his duties in a caretaker capacity waiting for the appointment of the 30th Government of Ireland. After two further failed attempts to choose a Taoiseach, Enda Kenny was eventually elected at the fourth time on the Friday, 6 May 2016 and his cabinet was announced later that day. This is the first case Ireland saw of an outgoing Fine Gael Taoiseach being re-elected. Mr Kenny immediatly proceeded to a reshuffle of his ministerial team and appointed a number of TDs as Ministers for the first time in his Fine Gael-Independent minority government Cabinet. He rewarded the support received from Independent TDs in securing him a second term as Taoiseach, the first time a Fine Gael leader has done so, by appointing three of his independent supporters to senior roles and one junior ministry. 

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