European Council Meetings

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 May 2010

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Ceisteanna (278)

Lucinda Creighton

Ceist:

317 Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of Council of the European Union’s meetings that he was entitled to attend in the past three years; the number of Council meetings he attended; the number of same that were attended by officials in his place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19125/10]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Deputy John Gormley)

Since June 2007, the EU of Environment Ministers Council has met formally on thirteen occasions. I attended eleven of these meetings in person. Ireland was represented on one occasion by a Minister of State and on a further occasion by the Deputy Permanent Representative to the European Union.