The Select Committee met at 10:30

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Mary Butler, Deputy Kathleen Funchion, Deputy Catherine Byrne, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, Deputy Joan Collins,* Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, Deputy Ruth Coppinger, Deputy Maurice Quinlivan,* Deputy Barry Cowen, Deputy Brendan Ryan. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan,

* In the absence of Deputies Mick Wallace and Eoin Ó Broin, respectively.

DEPUTY JOHN CURRAN IN THE CHAIR.