The Select Committee met at 10:00

MEMBERS PRESENT:

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

* In the absence of Deputy Thomas Pringle.

In attendance: Deputy Clare Daly.

DEPUTY ANDREW DOYLE IN THE CHAIR.