Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The first item on the agenda is a discussion on the forthcoming General Affairs Council meeting. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, who will attend the General Affairs Council meeting next week and who has agreed to meet us this evening. We are delighted to meet him and to discuss the forthcoming meeting. I understand he will deal with the multi-annual financial framework and preparing for that as well as for the October European Council and the European semester. We are looking forward to hearing his thoughts on those forthcoming meetings.