FG beefs up backroom team at Department of Health

Kathyann Barret to advise on media strategy in Hawkins House

Fine Gael minister Catherine Byrne Pic: RollingNews.ie

Fine Gael has moved another adviser to the Department of Health to work with its three junior health ministers.

Press officer Kathyann Barrett has moved to Hawkins House to work on media strategy and advice with the three Fine Gael ministers of state, Marcella Corcoran-Kennedy, Catherine Byrne and Helen McEntee.

Her appointment follows that of her former Fine Gael colleagues Majella Fitzpatrick and Joanne Lonergan as advisers to Minister for Health Simon Harris ...