The Select Committee met at 10:30

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Colm Brophy,+ Deputy Alan Kelly (Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government), Deputy Mary Butler, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, Deputy Seán Canney, Deputy Maurice Quinlivan,* Deputy Ruth Coppinger, Deputy Brendan Ryan, Deputy Clare Daly,* Deputy Mick Wallace. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan, Deputy Kathleen Funchion, Deputy Michael Harty,

* In the absence of Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan and Eoin Ó Broin, respectively.

+ In the absence of Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, for part of meeting.

DEPUTY JOHN CURRAN IN THE CHAIR.