Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of bilateral meetings that he has had with his European Union counterparts to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33794/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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As noted in the Programme for Government, the Government is committed to placing Ireland at the heart of Europe. Membership of the European Union has been transformative for Ireland and its people and I believe that it is in Ireland's best interests to pursue an active and engaged membership by working with our colleagues across the Union.

To date in 2022, I attended a videoconference meeting of EU Transport Ministers on 8 April. The meeting was organised at the request of Poland and other EU Member States near or at the Ukrainian border to discuss the EU response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

I also keep in regular contact with the network of European Green Ministers on various issues. This includes my Ministerial colleagues in Luxembourg, Belgium and Austria.

In addition, I met remotely with Prof. Péter Balázs, the EU Coordinator for the North Sea–Mediterranean Corridor of the Trans-European Transport Network on 17 June 2022 to discuss developments on the Irish section of the Corridor.