Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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449. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his Department officials attended; the date and location of each such meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45993/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I met with the Director of the Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) at the Department of the Taoiseach in my Leinster House office on 18 October. I was accompanied at this meeting by the Secretary General of my Department and by the Director General of my Department’s Policy and Communications Division.

Prior to this, the Director General of my Department’s Policy and Communications Division and Communications Unit Director met with the SCU Director in Government Buildings on 20 September. The Second Secretary General of my Department’s EU Division also did so on 4 October in Government Buildings.

In each case the SCU Director provided a briefing on the work of the Unit and the role that it will play in improving effectiveness, efficiency and cross-Government cooperation to foster and develop a whole of Government approach to communications.