The Select Committee met at 11:40

MEMBERS PRESENT:

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

In attendance: Deputies Catherine Connolly, David Cullinane, Michael Fitzmaurice, Noel Grealish, Eugene Murphy, Éamon Ó Cuív and Anne Rabbitte.

DEPUTY MARIA BAILEY IN THE CHAIR.