JOINT COMMITTEE ON EUROPEAN AFFAIRS debate

Prelude

The Joint Committee met at 11.30 a.m.

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Pat Breen,	Senator Déirdre de Búrca,
Deputy Joe Costello,	Senator Paschal Donoghue,*
Deputy Lucinda Creighton,	Senator John Hanafin,
Deputy Timmy Dooley,	Senator Terry Leyden,
Deputy Michael Kitt (Minister of	Senator Feargal Quinn.
State at the Department of Foreign
Affairs),
Deputy Michael McGrath,
Deputy Mary O’Rourke,
Deputy Dick Roche (Minister of
State at the Department of Foreign
Affairs),

*In the absence of Senator Maurice Cummins.

In attendance: Ms Mary Lou McDonald, MEP.

DEPUTY BERNARD J. DURKAN IN THE CHAIR.