The Select Committee met at 10:30

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Colm Brophy, Deputy Eoin Ó Broin, Deputy Mary Butler, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, Deputy Ruth Coppinger, Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, Deputy Barry Cowen, Deputy Maurice Quinlivan,* Deputy Bernard J. Durkan, Deputy Brendan Ryan, Deputy Michael Harty, Deputy Mick Wallace. Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran,

* In the absence of Deputy Kathleen Funchion.

DEPUTY JOHN CURRAN IN THE CHAIR.