Helen McEntee TDMinister for European Affairs, Ireland

Helen McEntee TD is Minister for European Affairs. She was previously appointed Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People in May 2016. She was elected to Dáil Éireann in March 2013. Deputy McEntee was appointed by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny to the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications. She is also a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht.

Ireland is the EU’s most youthful country, with over 40% of the population aged under 30. Helen always speaks up in Dáil debates for her generation, whom she says ‘have borne the brunt of a recession that we did not cause’.