The Select Committee met at 17:00

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Joan Burton,* Deputy Tony McLoughlin, Deputy Thomas Byrne, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills). Deputy Kathleen Funchion, Deputy Catherine Martin, Deputy Josepha Madigan,

* In the absence of Deputy Jan O'Sullivan

In attendance: Deputy Robert Troy

DEPUTY FIONA O'LOUGHLIN IN THE CHAIR.