SELECT COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS debate

Prelude

The Select Committee met at 11.10 a.m.

Members Present:

Deputy S. Ardagh,	Deputy D. McGinley,*
Deputy M. Barnes,	Deputy J. McGuinness,
Deputy B. Cooper-Flynn,	Deputy J. O’Donoghue (Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform),
Deputy F. Fitzgerald,	Deputy N. O’Flynn,
Deputy C. Flanagan,	Deputy J. O’Sullivan,*
Deputy E. Gilmore,*	Deputy M. Wallace (Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science),
Deputy M. Hanafin,	Deputy G. V. Wright.
Deputy J. Higgins (Mayo),

*In the absence of Deputies L. McManus, T. Ahearn and P. Upton respectively.

DEPUTY E. RYAN in the chair.