As you know, DPJ President and Prime Minister Kan and (PNP) Chief Kamei had a leader meeting the day following the day Prime Minister Kan assumed office, I believe, during which a decision to form a coalition was made. As I happened to be the Secretary General back then, I was also present at this meeting to witness, as I have explained, President Kan and Chief Kamei reach an agreement on creating an alternative to the Ministerial Committee on Basic Policies, which had been set up for the previous three-party coalition to coordinate their policies. This has not been done because everyone got a little busy in preparation for the election, as I have just talked about. Another point is that members of the PNP, being one of the parties in the coalition, have naturally raised voices requesting strongly that views of the party be reflected in the coalition. It is therefore not so much about the ceiling debate, although there are, of course, voices raised on the subject of ceilings, as it is simply natural that a coalition government should need to coordinate policies. That is what I reminded Prime Minister Kan of today, and he responded by saying that it is a matter of fact and telling Policy Research Committee Chair and Minister of State Gemba to create a proper system for it. While I did have a talk with Mr. Gemba later on, this is an issue between parties and I am sure that it will accordingly be handled properly, as it should be, by the Chief, or Secretary General or Policy Research Committee Chair of our party.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

それはご存じのように、菅代表、総理と亀井（国民新党）代表との話し合いでも、これは総理大臣になった次の日でしたか、党首会談をやりましたね。そして、連立を組むということに決定したわけでございますが、そのとき私はたまたま幹事長でしたから、党首会談に同席させていただいておりまして、そのときも今さっき言いましたように、それまでは3党でしたから、基本政策閣僚会議というのが3党の政策のすり合わせでございましたが、そういったものにかわるものをつくろうということを菅代表と亀井代表と合意しておりまして、そういった意味で、これは今さっき話したような選挙で少しみんなお互いに忙しくなりましたので、やっておりませんし、また我が党内のこれはいろいろ当然連立政権でございますから、党内の意見も連立政権与党として反映したいという強い当然意見がございますので、そこら辺を踏まえてシーリングということよりも、シーリングにも当然意見があると思いますが、連立政権ですから、当然政策のすり合わせというのは、これは当然のことでございますから、そのことを改めて今日菅総裁に申し上げて、菅総理からも当然のことだし、きちっと玄葉政調会長、国務大臣にそのことをきちっとシステムをつくるようにということで、玄葉さんとあと話しましたけれども、党と党との話でもございますから、当然党首、あるいは幹事長、政調会長が我が党におりますから、そこら辺できちっとやっていこうといくというふうに思っていますよ。 - 金融庁

I made a comment at the informal ministerial gathering today, which was obviously not a comment from the head of the administration, but I am Vice-Chief of the People's New Party (PNP), and the current government is, as you know, a coalition of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the PNP. Accordingly, Prime Minister Kan, right after he assumed office, met with (PNP) Chief Shizuka Kamei to discuss how the two parties would cooperate in policymaking, at which meeting I was also present as the PNP Secretary-General at that time. Under the three-party coalition that preceded the current one, there was a committee called the Ministerial Committee on Basic Policies, which was set up as a forum for the parties to coordinate or match their policies, but then the Social Democratic Party left the coalition. That is why how the remaining parties should cooperate in policymaking afterwards was a subject of discussion at the party leader meeting right after Prime Minister Kan became the new Prime Minister, during which both leaders agreed to go about it properly. Then as it turned out, as you know, we had a House of Councilors election and the same subject also just came up again during the recent meeting of the two party leaders, who supposedly agreed to "do it (policy cooperation)." That is why I decided to make an elaborate comment on this subject to Prime Minister Kan at today's informal ministerial gathering, to which Prime Minister Kan responded by telling Mr. Gemba, who is a state minister and is also DPJ's Policy Research Committee Chair, to work on policy cooperation with the PNP in the proper way - therefore, Policy Research Committee Chair Gemba and I proceeded to discuss how it should be done, a task that I presume will basically be handled mainly by policy research committee chairs.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

今日、閣僚懇で、私はこれは行政の長としての発言ではございませんけれども、国民新党の副代表でもございますし、両党、民主党と国民新党のご存じのように連立内閣でございますから、両党間の政策協議をどうするのかということは、実は菅総理がなられた後、すぐ亀井静香（国民新党）代表と話をされまして、当時私は幹事長でございましたから、同席をいたしまして、前の3党連立内閣のときは、基本政策閣僚委員会というのがございまして、ここで政策を整合性を図る、あるいはすり合わせをするということでございましたが、社民党さんが連立を離脱されましたので、その後の政策協力をどうするかということが当時菅総理が実現した後のすぐの党首会談でのテーマで、しっかりやりましょうという話でございましたが、ご存じのように参議院選挙になりましたので、またこの前も両党首会談でそのことが議題になって、「（政策協力を）やろう」ということでございましたから、今日閣僚懇で菅総理に相当申し上げまして、ちょうど玄葉さんが民主党の国務大臣兼政調会長でございますから、菅総理からもきちっと国民新党のほうとの政策協議をするようにということでございまして、玄葉政調会長と私ともどういうふうにするのかと、基本的に政調会長中心だというふうに思いますけれども、そのことを打ち合わせをさせていただいたわけでございます。 - 金融庁