Minister of State appointments
From Department of the Taoiseach
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The government on the nomination of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has formally appointed additional Ministers of State and assigned their responsibilities.
Speaking this evening the Taoiseach said:
"I wish the newly-appointed Ministers of State well in their portfolios. We have strong talent and ability from across the three government parties.
“Having emerged from COVID we face major challenges in the years ahead. As I said on Saturday, we are living in an age of emergencies: climate, the war in Ukraine, housing, the cost of living, child poverty. There are also threats to the economy and employment, affecting every community in our country.
“We must treat each challenge as a national emergency and deploy the full resources of the State, the full machinery of government, to make an immediate and real difference. These Ministers of State will play a vital role in that response, and in delivering the remainder of the Programme for Government.”
Hildegarde Naughton, already appointed to the Department of the Taoiseach as Government Chief Whip, has been assigned additional responsibilities to also be a Minister of State at the Department of Health (Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy).
The government previously appointed Jack Chambers as Minister for International & Road Transport & Logistics at the Department of Transport, as well as Minister for Postal Policy at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, and Senator Pippa Hackett as Minister for Land Use and BioDiversity at the Department of Agriculture.
The other appointments comprise: