Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate the time he has given us today and wish him the best at the GAERC meeting in Brussels next Tuesday. I suggest that we continue in public session because we do not have that much business if that is agreed? We have two meetings next week. One is on Wednesday morning when we will meet the Director General of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Mr. Koos Richelle, to discuss the Commission's communication on the social dimension of the EMU. We also have a meeting on Thursday afternoon with the social partners - ICTU, Social Justice Ireland and the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed - to discuss their reaction to the Commission's proposals.