Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 448: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of times he has met the Equality Authority since assuming office. [10031/04]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I have met variously with the chair, members of the board and the chief executive of the Equality Authority on four occasions: 26 June 2002, 27 January 2003, 6 March 2003 and 19 September 2003. I have also met the chief executive officer at a number of other events, most recently at an equality conference in Dublin earlier this month.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 449: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of times he has met the Irish Human Rights Commission since assuming office. [10032/04]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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Since assuming office I have met the Human Rights Commission on two occasions, on 21 October 2002 and on 8 March, this year. I have also met the president of the IHRC informally on a number of occasions over this period.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 450: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of times he has met the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism since assuming office. [10034/04]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I have met the NCCRI on two occasions, 2 September 2002 and 3 February 2004. In addition, I participated in a conference on migration policy organised by the NCCRI on 10 December 2002.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 451: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the quasi-non-governmental, non-governmental, community and voluntary organisations he has met since assuming office; and the organisations representing ethnic communities here he has met since assuming office. [10036/04]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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With respect to the first part of the Deputy's question, in the limited time available it has not been possible to compile the information sought. However, I will correspond with the Deputy in this regard in due course.

The meetings I have had with organisations and individuals who represent or are representative of the views of the ethnic communities here are outlined in the table below.

In addition, I have also met with a variety of Government and diplomatic representatives of the States of origin, and faith representatives of members of the ethnic communities living in Ireland.