The Select Committee met at 15:00

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Simon Coveney (Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine), Deputy Martin Heydon, Deputy Tom Barry, Deputy Michael McNamara, Deputy Pat Deering, Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, Deputy Martin Ferris, Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan.*

* In the absence of Deputy Thomas Pringle.

DEPUTY ANDREW DOYLE IN THE CHAIR.