Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 145: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has a management advisory committee or an equivalent management committee; if it meets regularly; and if so, the frequency of same; if he and the Ministers of State attached to his Department attend the meetings; if a special advisor or advisors attached to the Ministerial Office or offices attend such meetings; if the minutes are circulated subsequent to each meeting with an indication as to the action to be taken by whom and when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32979/07]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has a Management Board comprising the Secretary General of the Department, who chairs the Board, the Department's Assistant Secretaries General, the CEO of Forfás, and two Principal Officers, one of whom is the Head of the Department's Planning Unit.

The Board meets on average twice monthly and the Ministers of State at the Department, Ministerial Advisors and I usually attend every second meeting. Minutes of each Board meeting are produced which identify the Actions to be followed up and the Business Units responsible for same. Both the agenda and minutes for each meeting are made available to all staff on the Department's Intranet site.

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 146: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he convenes specific policy meetings with officials in his Department; the way a policy meeting with officials is different to that of a management meeting, such as a management advisory committee meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32993/07]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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As outlined in my reply to a separate Parliamentary Question to Deputy Quinn today, my Department has a Management Board which meets, on average, twice a month. My Departmental Ministers of State and I usually attend every second meeting of the Board. As the Deputy would expect, each Board meeting deals with a number of items of business as set out in an agenda for that meeting. In addition, specific policy meetings are convened by me and/or my Ministers of State as required, and such meetings would usually be devoted to a particular item of Departmental business.