Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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913. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade If he will list, in tabular form, the representations received by him over the past three years, his Department and his Department’s Ministers of State, on the European Union - United States of America Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or any of the other names by which these negotiations have been known; if he will provide a full list of the persons and organisations from whom these representations came; the number of meetings he, his Ministerial colleagues or his Department officials have had with interested parties regarding it; with whom they were held and the date on which they took place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22463/15]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade exercises responsibility for trade promotion, and is not the Department responsible for international trade policy. Hence, it does not have the leading role in Ireland’s input to the negotiations relating to the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Accordingly, where formal representations are received by my Department on the TTIP negotiations, these are generally referred to the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for their consideration. My Department has received such representations relating to TTIP since June 2012 from a range of organisations and private citizens. A list of the organisations has been annexed to this reply.

The issue of the negotiations on a possible trade agreement between the EU and the US comes up as a regular item for discussion at meetings that I, Ministers of State and officials at my Department have with various interlocutors including Oireachtas members, Members of the European Parliament, the EU Commission, other Member States and the US authorities. In addition, in the course of their work our missions in EU countries and in the US have also had conversations with appropriate interlocutors on the EU-US trade agenda, during which TTIP was discussed.

Annex: Cavan County Council; Chambers Ireland; Copa-Cogeca/European Farmers - European Agri-Cooperatives; Donegal County Council; Dublin International Insurance and Management Association; Emergency Committee for American Trade; European Banking Federation; European Film Agencies Directors; Faith in Action group; IFA; IFUT, INTO, TUI and ASTI; IMPACT; Irish Cancer Society; Irish Medical Organisation; Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association; Presentation Justice Network.