The Joint Committee met at 09:30

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Catherine Byrne, Sentor Ivana Bacik,* Deputy Ciara Conway, Senator Colm Burke, Deputy Regina Doherty, Senator John Crown, Deputy Robert Dowds, Senator Imelda Henry, Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick, Senator Jillian van Turnhout, Deputy Seamus Healy, Senator Jim Walsh.* Deputy Billy Kelleher, Deputy Mattie McGrath, Deputy Sandra McLellan, Deputy Eamonn Maloney, Deputy Denis Naughten, Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, Deputy Robert Troy,

* In the absence of Senators John Gilroy and Marc MacSharry, respectively.

In attendance: Deputies James Bannon, Ray Butler, Michael Creed, Clare Daly, Bernard J. Durkan, Terence Flanagan, Dominic Hannigan, Kevin Humphreys, Colm Keaveney, Paul Kehoe, Finian McGrath, Peter Mathews, Olivia Mitchell, Michelle Mulherin, Seán Ó Fearghaíl and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, and Senators Paul Bradford, Terry Brennan, Aideen Hayden, Fidelma Healy Eames and Rónán Mullen.

DEPUTY JERRY BUTTIMER IN THE CHAIR.