Fine Gael Front Bench

Fine Gael is the largest political party in the Oireachtas. The Fine Gael leader appoints a team of TDs and Senators to speak for the party on different issues. When Fine Gael was in opposition, the front bench areas of responsibility broadly corresponded to those of Government ministers. Fine Gael has been in Government since March 2011 and accordingly their front bench consists of the ministerial officeholders.

Fine Gael Front Bench

See also: Government of the 31st Dáil

Portfolio	Name	Since
Taoiseach	Enda Kenny	2011
Spokesperson on Northern Ireland
Minister for Finance	Michael Noonan	2011
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation	Richard Bruton	2011
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine	Simon Coveney	2011
Minister for Defence		2014
Minister for Justice and Equality	Frances Fitzgerald	2014
Deputy leader	James Reilly	2011
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs		2014
Minister for Health	Leo Varadkar	2014
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade	Charles Flanagan	2014
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport	Paschal Donohoe	2014
Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht	Heather Humphreys	2014
Government Chief Whip	Paul Kehoe	2011
Minister of State for Defence
Minister of State at the Department of Finance	Simon Harris	2014
Minister of State for Tourism and Sport	Michael Ring	2011
Minister of State for Food, Horticulture and Food Safety	Tom Hayes	2013
Minister of State for European Affairs and Data Protection	Dara Murphy	2014
Minister of State for the Diaspora	Jimmy Deenihan	2014
Minister of State for Skills, Research and Innovation	Damien English	2014
Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs and Natural Resources	Joe McHugh	2014
Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Co-ordination of the Construction 2020 Strategy	Paudie Coffey	2014

See also

• Labour Party (Ireland) Front Bench
• Fianna Fáil Front Bench
• Sinn Féin Front Bench