Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, the dates of meetings of his Department's management advisory council in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; the civil servants present at each of these meetings; if he or his Department's Minister of State was present at each of these meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45484/14]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy would require an inordinate time to compile as the number of meetings involved is quite substantial.  

The Management Board (MB) of the Department would normally meet every Tuesday morning except for the month of August and over the Christmas/New Year period.  It is comprised of the Secretary General and the Assistant Secretaries of the Department, currently 5. Meetings are also attended by the secretary to the MB.  The Special Adviser to the Minister and a representative from the Ministers of State Offices would also attend for a standard agenda Item on "Ministerial, Government, and Oireachtas Business".  Other departmental civil servants may be asked to attend for agenda items which are of direct relevance to them.

Additionally, the Ministerial Management Board (MMB) would normally convene once a month, again with the exception of August.  It comprises the Minister, Ministers of State and the MB. The advisers to Ministers also attend, as does the Secretary to the MB and the Private Secretaries to the Minister and Secretary General. The Financial Report is a standard Agenda Item for every meeting and the Principal Officer of the Department's Finance Division and a number of his staff attend for this Agenda Item.  Other civil servants may be asked to attend depending on agenda items.