A list of all the members of the Council of State.
Taoiseach, Mr Bertie Ahern; Tánaiste, Ms Mary Harney; Chief Justice, Mr Justice Ronan Keane; Ceann Comhairle, Mr Seamus Pattison; Cathaoirleach of the Seanad, Senator Brian Mullooly;President of the High Court, Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan; Attorney General, Mr Michael McDowell.
Dr Patrick Hillery, former president; Mrs Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president; Mr Liam Cosgrave, Dr Garret FitzGerald, Mr Charles Haughey, Mr Albert Reynolds TD and Mr John Bruton TD, former taoisigh; Mr Justice T.A. Finlay, Referendum Commission chairman and former chief justice; Mr Justice T.F. O'Higgins, former chief justice.
President's nominees: Sister Stanilaus Kennedy, founder and president of Focus Ireland organisation for the homeless; Mr Brian Crowley MEP, Fianna Fáil MEP for Munster and former party spokesman on justice and law reform; Mr Martin Naughton, chairman, Glen Dimplex Group; Ms Ruth Curtis, psychologist and founder of the Galway Business and Professional Women's Organisation; Ms Christina Carney, assistant general secretary, IMPACT and board member of Comhairle na nOspidéal; Mr Noel Stewart OBE, accountant, former chairman of Craigavon Area Hospital Group Trust, former board member of Co-operation North and former honorary treasurer of Queen's University; Mr Gordan Brett, sports management graduate and former League soccer player.