Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 4 November 2014
291. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Finance the number of meetings he or officials from his Department had with a person (details supplied); the purpose of each of those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41329/14]
View answerIn response to the question, I can confirm that there have been no meetings between myself, or the Department of Finance, and Irish Water or the individual named in the period.
However Department of Finance officials were in attendance at Department of the Environment and Local Government meetings with Irish Water (where Mr Tierney was also in attendance)
Additionally, the Department, in its capacity as coordinator of the EU/IMF programme, facilitated a number of meetings between Irish Water and the troika. Mr John Tierney attended these meetings, which in line with practice were held in my departments' offices as part of the 12th EU-IMF Review Mission on 31 October 2013 and the 1st Post-programme review mission on 2 May 2014.
These meetings were requested by the troika as part of their monitoring of the implementation of the commitments in the EU-IMF programme of Financial Support to Ireland (October 2013 meeting). The May 2014 meeting was similarly requested by the troika in the context of the 1st Post-programme review meeting (April-May meeting). Department of Finance officials were in attendance as observers at both meetings and were not active participants in either.
