Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
9:00 am
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Last year, we held 15 meetings of the EMC which, as the Deputy will be aware, no longer operates. To be clear on this issue, when Mr. Eamon Gilmore was Tánaiste, it was important, given the perilous state of the economy at the time, to have regular and constant engagement between senior Departments. This required regular meetings to be held and it was important that both parties in a government that was dealing with highly sensitive issues were able to engage regularly as issues or crises of one sort or another arose. It is not necessary to have an Economic Management Council now and I did not re-establish it as a sub-committee on this occasion. The EMC did not act as a Government because it had to bring any recommendations or proposals it made to Cabinet for endorsement.
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