Thanks, Ryan, for the correction. I knew she was one of the "three hail Mary's"-picked the wrong one! A previous message to the list indicated that the meeting would be attended by Mary Coughlan, but perhaps this was the wrong meeting? Not sure. Interesting if was Pat the Cope Gallagher - I met him at a public library conference in Portugal a couple of years back, so he's aware of access to information type issues. And the COREPER rep I gave is from Marine section, not agriculture.
Teresa
On 25/01/2005 16:22, "Teresa Hackett" teresahackett@eircom.net wrote:
Mmmm, our Council rep for this issue is the Minister for Trade &
Enterprise
(Mr Martin), backed up by civil servants in Dublin (ENTEMP-see their website) and the Council civil servants in Brussels (COREPER-see below). Because the vote might be taken at the fisheries meeting, then the present is the Min for Agriculture (Mrs Hanafin). The civil servants have been dealing with this issue from the start, it's new for the Minister(s)
because
they're new in post.
Just a small correction to your email - the Minister for Agriculture is Mary Coughlan, not Mary Hanafin. Also, the fisheries function falls under the Minister for Communications, the Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey. I'm not sure if this means that it will be Dempsey who attends the meeting rather than Mary Coughlan. A third possibility is Dempsey's junior minister, Pat the Cope Gallagher, who seems to take a more direct interest in fisheries issues.
Ryan