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Thursday, 24 November 2016

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Brexit Issues

Photo of Seán SherlockSeán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of times he has met with officials from his own Department, the European Commission, the United Kingdom, the World Bank and the IMF regarding the vote of the United Kingdom to leave the EU and the impact it will have economically. [36581/16]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Following the result of the UK referendum on EU membership I had my first discussion on its implications with my own officials on the day of the referendum result itself, and I have met with them regularly since then as matters have developed.

As regards the European Commission, my Northern Ireland colleague, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir and I wrote, at my initiative, to EU Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Cretu on 20 July 2016 to underscore our joint commitment to the PEACE and INTERREG Programmes, and my officials have met the Commission on a number of occasions since then to advance the issue.

I have met and spoken by phone with Minister Ó Muilleoir on a number of occasions since the Referendum result to discuss the two North South programmes, most recently in the margins of the Plenary meeting of the North South Ministerial Council in Armagh on 18 November 2016.  

Ireland also has an INTERREG Programme with Wales, and I met my Welsh counterpart, Mark Drakeford in Dublin on 21 October 2016.  I also had a meeting with the British Ambassador to Ireland on 14 November 2016.

Issues relating to the IMF and the Work Bank are a matter for my colleague the Minister for Finance.

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