Name Organisation Job Title , TD Department of the Taoiseach Government Chief Whip and Minister of State with Sean Kyne, TD Department of the Taoiseach responsibility for Gaeilge, Gaeltacht and the Islands Minister of State for European Helen McEntee, TD Department of the Taoiseach Affairs Minister of State with special responsibility for Trade, Pat Breen, TD Department of the Taoiseach Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection Minister of State with special , TD Department of the Taoiseach responsibility for Defence Brian Murphy Department of the Taoiseach Chief of Staff Nick Miller Department of the Taoiseach Government Press Secretary Head of Policy and Programme John Carroll Department of the Taoiseach Implementation Special Adviser to the Angela Flanagan Department of the Taoiseach Taoiseach Special Adviser to the Patrick Geoghegan Department of the Taoiseach Taoiseach Special Adviser to the Philip O’Callaghan Department of the Taoiseach Taoiseach Special Adviser to the Clare Mungovan Department of the Taoiseach Taoiseach Special Adviser to the Jim D'Arcy Department of the Taoiseach Taoiseach Special Adviser to the Peter Feeney Department of the Taoiseach Government Chief Whip Special Adviser to the Peter Harper Department of the Taoiseach Government Chief Whip Martin Fraser Department of the Taoiseach Secretary General John Callinan Department of the Taoiseach Second Secretary General John Shaw Department of the Taoiseach Assistant Secretary Eamonn Molloy Department of the Taoiseach Assistant Secretary Helen Blake Department of the Taoiseach Assistant Secretary Andrew Munro Department of the Taoiseach Assistant Secretary