Written answers

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Department of Justice, Equality and Defence

Official Engagements

10:00 pm

Photo of Nicky McFaddenNicky McFadden (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 247: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department in attendance at Ministerial Councils for which his Department has responsibility since the formation of the Government; and if he will list all such meetings which have taken place and the Minister in attendance at each meeting. [21509/11]

Photo of Alan ShatterAlan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Justice and Equality has responsibility for the Justice and Home Affairs Council. Since the formation of the current Government in March this year, this Council has met on three occasions. Two of these meetings, April and June, have been scheduled while the third one in May was a one-off extraordinary meeting.

There has been one further informal meeting of the Council this week in Sopot, Poland.

Since being appointed as Minister for Justice and Equality, I have attended all scheduled meetings of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, including the informal meeting hosted earlier this week by the Polish presidency.

I can inform the Deputy that Minister of State at my Department, Ms. Kathleen Lynch T.D., who has responsibility for Disability, Equality and Mental Health issues attended the extraordinary meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council in May. This meeting was held in Brussels on 12 May 2011 and was convened primarily to discuss the situation in the Southern Neighbourhood Region arising from recent events in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.

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