JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT, CULTURE AND THE GAELTACHT debate

Prelude

The Joint Committee met at 10.30 a.m.

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy James Bannon,	Senator Averil Power.*
Deputy Paudie Coffey,
Deputy Noel Coonan,
Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy,
Deputy Timmy Dooley,
Deputy Dessie Ellis,
Deputy Terence Flanagan,
Deputy Seán Kenny,
Deputy Sandra McLellan,
Deputy Tony McLoughlin,
Deputy Gerald Nash,
Deputy Ann Phelan,*
Deputy Patrick O’Donovan,
Deputy Brian Stanley,
Deputy Brian Walsh,

* In the absence of Deputy Kevin Humphreys and Senator Ned O'Sullivan.

In attendance: Deputies Seán Conlon, Heather Humphreys and Michael P. Kitt.

DEPUTY CIARÁN LYNCH IN THE CHAIR.