Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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683. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out the total number of meetings of the Brexit co-ordination group established within her department since the UK referendum to leave the EU; the dates of all such meetings; the number of meetings planned in 2017; when the next meeting will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5524/17]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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On the day the Referendum result was known I established a Co-ordination Group on Brexit in my Department, consisting of the CEOs of both IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, and relevant enterprise, single market and trade officials from the Department to oversee implementation of our response to the emerging national, UK and EU developments.

This Group, which I chair, oversees the management of my Department's response to the Referendum result.

So far, the Group has met on 10 occasions:

- 24th June 2016

- 8th July 2016

- 20th July 2016

- 6th October 2016

- 26th October 2016

- 10th November 2016

- 24th November 2016

- 7th December 2016

- 20th December 2016

- 25th January 2017

The next meeting of the Coordination Group is scheduled for Monday 13th February. We will continue to meet on a regular basis throughout 2017. Dates for these meetings area currently being finalised.

The issues arising from Brexit are also discussed at every meeting of the Department's Management Board and the Ministerial Management Board.