Dara Calleary has been announced as the new super junior minister attending Cabinet meetings.
He will retain his current role as Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with special responsibility for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation.
Kildare North TD James Lawless will take over the position of minister of state at the Department of Transport with special responsibility for International and Road Transport and Logistics.
The positions became vacant due to the elevation of Jack Chambers to the Minister for Finance role vacated by Michael McGrath.
Ministers signed off on the nominations at an incorporeal Cabinet meeting this afternoon.
Mr Calleary was briefly Minister for Agriculture in 2020 for just over one month but he resigned after the Golfgate controversy.
Before that, he was chief whip for a few weeks.
He has been a TD for Mayo since 2007.
In August 2022, he became a junior minister following the resignation of Robert Troy.
Mr Lawless was elected in 2016 for Kildare North.
He chairs the Oireachtas Justice committee.
