Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Question 511: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the ministerial council on migrant integration is still operable; the number of meetings of the council held in the past year; the date of these meetings; if no meetings were held in 2011 the reason for this; his view on the council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7831/12]

Alan Shatter (Minister, Department of Justice, Equality and Defence; Dublin South, Fine Gael)

The position is that no meetings of the Ministerial Council on Integration were held in 2011 as the future of the Council is under consideration and I will make a decision on the matter shortly.