The Select Committee met at 14:30

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Tom Barry, Deputy Martin Heydon, Deputy Simon Coveney (Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine), Deputy Colm Keaveney, Deputy Clare Daly,* 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 the absence of Deputy Clare Daly, for part of meeting.

DEPUTY ANDREW DOYLE IN THE CHAIR.