Helen McEntee
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Helen McEntee TD |
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| Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People |
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Assumed office 19 May 2016 |
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| Taoiseach | Enda Kenny |
| Preceded by | Kathleen Lynch |
| Teachta Dála | |
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Assumed office March 2013 |
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| Constituency | Meath East |
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| Born |
8 June 1986 Castletown, Meath, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Fine Gael |
| Relations |
Shane McEntee (father) Kathleen McEntee (mother) Gerry McEntee (uncle) |
| Alma mater | Dublin City University |
| Website | Helen McEntee TD |
Helen McEntee (born 8 June 1986) is an Irish Fine Gael politician, and current Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People in the 30th Government of Ireland. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Meath East since 2013, and is one of three members of Dáil Éireann to represent the constituency.
The daughter of Shane McEntee, himself a Fine Gael politician and TD from 2005 to 2012, she was raised in Meath and studied at Dublin City University. After taking a job in industry she worked at Leinster House as her father's assistant from 2010, until his death in 2012. She was first elected as a TD at the 2013 Meath East by-election, triggered by the death of her father, and she became the first Fine Gael candidate to win a by-election with the party in government since 1975. She was re-elected to represent the constituency in 2016, and subsequently appointed as a junior minister of state in the Department of Health.
As well as her ministerial role, McEntee is also chair of the government's youth mental health task force, an organisation working to increase awareness of mental health issues among young people.
The daughter of Shane and Kathleen McEntee, Helen McEntee is one of four siblings. She is also the niece of former Gaelic footballer and prominent surgeon Gerry McEntee. Raised on her family's farm in Castletown, County Meath, she attended St Joseph's Mercy Secondary School in Navan, where she first developed an interest in politics, and represented her class on the school's student council. From 2004 she studied economics, politics, and law at Dublin City University (DCU), where she helped to re-establish the university's branch of Young Fine Gael, which had been inactive for some time. After graduating in 2007, she worked for a subsidiary of Citibank, but returned to higher education in 2010 to complete a Masters in Journalism and Media Communications at Griffith College.
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