Given the unavoidable absence of the Chairman I am seeking nominations for Acting Chairman.
Business of Joint Committee
Clerk to the Committee
I propose Deputy Thomas Byrne.
Clerk to the Committee
Deputy Thomas Byrne is unopposed. Will you take the Chair please, Deputy?
Deputy Thomas Byrne took the Chair.
Apologies have been received from Deputies Tony McLoughlin and Hildegarde Naughton. We will go into private session.
The joint committee went into private session at 9.40 a.m. and resumed in public session at 9.45 a.m.