Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Colin Walsh:
I am not sure whether I answered the Deputy earlier about the forum. It has been a long day. I cannot remember. The forum was established on a formal basis. There have been three meetings. The first was on 15 March 2016. A range of representative groups, a cross-section representing the industry, attended. There was an agenda agreed in advance and there were minutes and notes taken at the meetings. The second meeting took place on 14 July 2016, at which again a cross-section of representative groups of the industry attended and there was an agenda. The meeting was carried out in a formal, structured way. The third meeting took place on 10 November 2016. It was attended by the Minister of State, Deputy Doyle, and other representatives from the Department. Again, representative groups and other different groups attended. It was a structured, minuted, agenda-led forum. That formal forum exists.
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