Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Question 541: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and dates of formal meetings that she has had with the management advisory committee in her Department since her appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18917/11]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Children and Youth Affairs was formally established on the 3rd of June and the Secretary General of the Department was announced last week. Until then, the only person at Management Advisory Committee level in the Department was the Deputy Secretary General, with whom I have had regular meetings since my appointment. I have also attended Department of Health Management Advisory Committee meetings since my appointment.

Now that a Secretary General is in place, and when a new Assistant Secretary has been appointed, a formal structure of MAC meetings and meetings of the MAC with myself will be put in place.