Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 317: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of Council of the European Union's meetings that he was entitled to attend in the past three years; the number of Council meetings he attended; the number of same that were attended by officials in his place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19125/10]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Since June 2007, the EU of Environment Ministers Council has met formally on thirteen occasions. I attended eleven of these meetings in person. Ireland was represented on one occasion by a Minister of State and on a further occasion by the Deputy Permanent Representative to the European Union.