and Urban Development from June 2017 to June 2020. In July 2020, he was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with responsibility for Employment Affairs and Retail Businesses and Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection with responsibility for Redundancy and Insolvency Operations and Employer Services. Ministerial resignation In January 2023, news website The Ditch published a story claiming English failed to declare ownership of an existing home in his planning application for a new property in 2008. It also claimed he neglected to declare such ownership in the Dáil register of interests. He resigned as Minister of State on 12 January 2023. References External links Damien English's page on the Fine Gael website 1978 births Living people Alumni of Dublin Institute of Technology Alumni of Dublin Business School Fine Gael TDs Local councillors in County Meath Members of the 29th Dáil Members of the 30th Dáil Members of the 31st Dáil Members of the 32nd Dáil Ministers of State of the 31st Dáil Ministers of State of the 32nd Dáil Young Fine Gael Members of the 33rd Dáil Ministers of State of the 33rd Dáil