Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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258. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials from his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department have had with an organisation (details supplied) including its representatives from 1 January 2019 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12739/24]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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While I or my Department have not engaged directly with the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) during the specified timeframe, the NWCI is a participant in the National Economic Dialogue, which is annually hosted jointly by my Department and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform.

In relation to the bodies under the aegis of my Department, the Central Bank of Ireland has advised that in 2022, it had one engagement with a member of the NWCI. In October of 2022, the Central Bank published a Discussion Paper on the Consumer Protection Code. In line with the Bank’s strategic objective of being Open and Engaged, and its desire to gather feedback and insights from its broad range of stakeholders across civil society, industry and state agencies, this launch, and the six-month engagement programme which followed, sought to include representatives from a variety of consumer and industry representative groups. An in-person event took place in October 2022 in order to engage with the public on this Paper, and the Director of the NWCI attended this event.