The Select Committee met at 14:00

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Seán Barrett, Deputy Tony McLoughlin, Deputy Ciarán Cannon (Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), Deputy Darragh O'Brien, Deputy Simon Coveney (Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade), Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan. Deputy Seán Crowe, Deputy Noel Grealish, Deputy Paul Kehoe (Minister of State at the Department of Defence),

In attendance: Deputies Lisa Chambers and Aengus Ó Snodaigh.

DEPUTY BRENDAN SMITH IN THE CHAIR.