The Select Committee met at 10:00

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Seán Barrett, Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly, Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett, Deputy Marc MacSharry, Deputy Thomas P. Broughan, Deputy Michael McGrath, Deputy Joan Burton, Senator Hildegarde Naughton, Deputy Dara Calleary, Deputy Michael Noonan (Minister for Finance), Deputy Lisa Chambers, Deputy Noel Rock, Deputy David Cullinane, Deputy Eamon Ryan. Deputy Pearse Doherty, Deputy Paschal Donohoe (Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform),

DEPUTY JOHN PAUL PHELAN IN THE CHAIR.