Following the formation of a government in 2016 , Shane Ross , a member of the Government of the 32nd Dáil , confirmed in an address to the Dáil that the subcommittee would not form part of the new government . Ross told the Dáil on 6 May 2016 : " I had a conversation last night with the Taoiseach . I was talking to him about Dáil reform and I asked him about an issue - a last point I had forgotten to ask about earlier - which was the abolition of the Economic Management Council . I thought it was going to be like one of these thorny topics which we had been through over the last few weeks . He told me okay , it is gone , that it had been needed for a particular time and it is not needed any more and I was to consider it gone . To me that was very encouraging because it meant that one of those obstacles to Dáil reform , one of those rather secretive bodies that had dictated to the Cabinet and to the Dáil the agenda of what came out to the country , was now a thing of the past . "
formation of a government
2016 Irish government formation
Government of the 31st Dáil