Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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45. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his meeting with the managing director of the IMF Christine Lagarde; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4298/15]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, visited Dublin on 19 January to attend a conference organised by the IMF together with the Central Bank of Ireland and the Centre for Economic Policy Research on Ireland lessons learned from its Recovery from the Bank Sovereign Loop.

I participated in a high level discussion panel at the conference along with Ms Christine Lagarde, Mr Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice President of the European Commission and Mr BenoÌt Coeuré, a member of the Executive Board of the ECB.  The panel discussion was open to the media and live-streamed. 

Minister Howlin and I also met with Ms Lagarde earlier in the day.  We gave a joint press conference after the meeting.  The meeting did not have a formal agenda. However, we used the opportunity to brief her on developments in the Irish economy and the outlook for the period ahead.  Our discussions also touched on EU and international economic and financial developments.