JOINT COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE debate

Prelude

The Joint Committee met at 14.30 p.m.

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Eric Byrne,	Senator David Norris,
Deputy Bernard J. Durkan,	Senator Marie-Louise O’Donnell,+
Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor,*	Senator Jim Walsh.
Deputy Dan Neville,
Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin,*
Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan,

* In the absence of Deputies Dara Murphy and Gerald Nash, respectively.

+ In the absence of Senator Deirdre Clune.

DEPUTY PAT BREEN IN THE CHAIR.