Cabinet Committee on Brexit

To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of meetings he has attended of the Cabinet Committee on Brexit chaired by An Taoiseach since it was established; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
- Darragh O'Brien.
* For WRITTEN answer on Tuesday, 28th February, 2017.
Ref No: 9797/17

REPLY
The Cabinet Committee on Brexit, chaired by the Taoiseach, has met six times to date. 
A further meeting is scheduled to take place on 8 March, just in advance of the European Council in Brussels (9-10 March).
I have attended five of the six meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Brexit, missing only the Committee meeting on 7 November 2016, as at that time I was accompanying President Higgins on the State Visit to Vietnam.   In addition to this Cabinet Committee, Brexit related matters are also regularly discussed at plenary meetings of Cabinet and in a wide variety of other meetings and fora.