The Select Committee met at 14:10

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Mick Barry,+ Deputy Damien English (Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government),+ Deputy Pat Casey, Deputy Gino Kenny,+ Deputy Ruth Coppinger, Deputy Mattie McGrath, Deputy Simon Coveney (Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government), Deputy Eoin Ó Broin, Deputy Barry Cowen, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd.

+ In the absence of Deputies Ruth Coppinger, Simon Coveney and Mick Barry, respectively, for part of meeting.

In attendance: Deputies Catherine Connolly, Seamus Healy, Catherine Murphy, Jan O'Sullivan, Bríd Smith and Mick Wallace.

DEPUTY MARIA BAILEY IN THE CHAIR.