Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 31: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he envisages that the export trade council will be established. [14623/11]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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The recent transfer of certain trade promotion functions from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to my Department has given it responsibility for the management of the Export Trade Council which will subsume the work of the previous Foreign Trade Council. I will chair the new Council with support from the Minister of State for Trade and Development, Jan O'Sullivan TD. In line with the commitment in the Programme for Government, I intend to involve the private sector in its work, in addition to the Government Departments and State Agencies which have been involved to date in the work of the Foreign Trade Council. I intend to convene the first meeting of the new Council before the end of this month.