Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Presidency will be hugely challenging. Since the Lisbon arrangements, the European Council is chaired by President Van Rompuy and the Foreign Affairs Council is chaired by High Representative Catherine Ashton. I have spoken to her about how we are going to share the burden during the six months and on the agenda is the issue of EU dialogue with Cuba. I expect to be involved with that but where it will take place has not been settled.