The Joint Committee met at 09:30

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Catherine Byrne, Senator Colm Burke, Deputy Joe Costello, Senator Thomas Byrne, Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick, Senator Imelda Henry, Deputy Seamus Healy, Senator Jillian van Turnhout. Deputy Billy Kelleher, Deputy Sandra McLellan, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin,

In attendance: Deputies Derek Nolan and Brendan Smith.

DEPUTY JERRY BUTTIMER IN THE CHAIR.

The joint committee met in private session at 9.37 a.m. and in public session at 10.20 a.m.