SELECT COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE, EQUALITY, DEFENCE AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS debate -
Wednesday, 13 Nov 2002

Vol. 1 No. 1

Prelude

The Select Committee met at 6.00 p.m.

Members Present:

Deputy J. Costello,	Deputy P. McGrath,
Deputy M. Hoctor,	Deputy C. O’Connor,
Deputy M. McDowell (Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform),	Deputy D. O’Donovan,
Deputy D. McGinley,	Deputy S. Ó Fearghail,
Deputy F. McGrath,	Deputy P. Power.

*In attendance Deputy Martin Ferris.

DEPUTY SEÁN ARDAGH in the chair.

Chairman

I welcome the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to the meeting. This is the first occasion the Minister has attended a meeting of this committee and I hope we will be able to work together. We are discussing a motion on the terms of the agreement between the Irish and British Governments on police co-operation, signed at Belfast on 29 April 2002. Members have been circulated with the relevant briefing documentation on co-operation between the PSNI and the Garda Síochána.