The Select Committee met at 09:30

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Catherine Byrne (Minister of State at the Department of Health), Deputy Margaret Murphy O'Mahony, Deputy Jack Chambers,* Deputy Kate O'Connell, Deputy Bernard J. Durkan, Deputy Louise O'Reilly.

* In the absence of Deputy Billy Kelleher.

DEPUTY MICHAEL HARTY IN THE CHAIR.

The select committee met in private session until 9.42 a.m.