Consideration was given to a letter dated the 4th July, 1947, received by the Minister for External Affairs from the Acting British Representative,¹ conveying an invitation to the government, by the British and French Governments, to take part in administrative machinery which those Governments desired to see set up in connection with the drawing up of a programme of reconstruction for Europe. It was decided that the invitation should be accepted, and the Tánaiste, Minister for Industry and Commerce, and the Minister for Agriculture were nominated as the representatives of Ireland at a meeting in Paris to be held on the 12th July in order to settle the composition of a Committee of Co-Operation and of four sub-Committees which it is proposed to establish for the purpose of bringing together the data on which a programme of reconstruction for Europe would be based.