The Select Committee met at 18:00

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Mick Barry, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, Deputy Pat Casey, Deputy Eoin Ó Broin, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, Deputy John Paul Phelan (Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government).

In attendance: Deputies Michael Collins, Catherine Connolly, David Cullinane, Michael Fitzmaurice, Noel Grealish, Danny Healy-Rae, Aindrias Moynihan, Eugene Murphy, Éamon Ó Cuív, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire and Anne Rabbitte.

DEPUTY MARIA BAILEY IN THE CHAIR.