Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 8, inclusive, together.

The Cabinet committee on Northern Ireland was created on 10 April 2024 and will oversee implementation of programme for Government commitments and ongoing developments related to Northern Ireland. Its membership comprises me as Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, and the Ministers for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Transport, Justice, Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, Finance, and Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Other Ministers and Ministers of State will be invited to participate as required. It is expected to meet during the coming weeks. Issues related to Northern Ireland are also discussed at Cabinet and in bilateral meetings I regularly have. As I previously updated the House, on my visit to Belfast on 3 May I met the First Minister and deputy First Minister, the Speaker of the Assembly and the leaders of the Alliance Party, the SDLP and the UUP. I look forward to meeting the First Minister and deputy First Minister again at the British-Irish Council summit in the Isle of Man on 20 and 21 June. Following the plenary meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council on 8 April, a series of 12 ministerial sectoral meetings are in the process of being held before the summer recess.

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