He was appointed Chair of the Dáil Committee on Budgetary Oversight in December 2017.[7]
At the general election in February 2020, he won 12.2% of the first-preference votes, and was re-elected on the tenth count.[8][9] Following the formation of the Government of the 33rd Dáil, Brophy was appointed on 1 July 2020 as the Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid and Diaspora.[10] He said that his "focus in the coming months and years will be to listen to, and to support, our Diaspora communities, particularly its most vulnerable members".[11][12]