Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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106. To ask the Taoiseach the details of all meetings of the National Security Committee; and the dates the committee met. [15969/18]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Having regard to the confidential nature of the National Security Committee, it would not be appropriate to disclose information about the dates of individual meetings or about its proceedings.

The Committee is chaired by the Secretary General to the Government and comprises representatives at the highest level of the Departments of Justice & Equality, Defence and Foreign Affairs and Trade, and of the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces.

It is concerned with ensuring that the Government and I are advised of high level security issues and the responses to them.

The Committee meets as required and will continue to do so. It should be noted that the members of the Committee also attend Cabinet Committee F and this provides the members with an additional forum to liaise and monitor developments that might have national security implications, in particular in the international arena. Cabinet Committee F has met three times.