Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

List of Irish Ministers of State

The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is a junior ministerial post in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine of the Government of Ireland and assists the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. A Minister of State does not hold cabinet rank.

There are currently two Ministers of State, who were appointed in 2020:

• Senator Pippa Hackett – Minister of State with responsibility for Land Use and Biodiversity; and
• Martin Heydon, TD – Minister of State with responsibility for Research & Development, Farm Safety and New Market Development.^[1][2]

List of parliamentary secretaries

List of ministers of state

References

1. "List of Ministers and Ministers of State", Government of Ireland, archived from the original on 7 August 2020, retrieved 4 August 2020
2. "Ministers". Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Archived from the original on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
3. Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2021 (S.I. No. 40 of 2021). Signed on 2 February 2021. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 15 February 2021.
4. "Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State – Dáil Éireann (33rd Dáil) – Tuesday, 7 July 2020". Houses of the Oireachtas. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
5. "Carroll MacNeill and O'Donnell promoted to junior ministers". RTÉ News. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.