Select Committee on Social Affairs debate

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DÁIL ÉIREANN

ROGHCHOISTE UM GHNÓTHAÍ SÓISIALTA.

SELECT COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL AFFAIRS.

Déardaoin, 23 Eanáir 1997.

Thursday, 23 January 1997.

The Select Committee met at 11.15 a.m.

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy	(Minister for Education),N. Bhreathnach
,,	P. Bradford,
,,	M. Brennan,
,,	T. Broughan,*
,,	R. Burke,*
,,	G. Connolly,*
,,	M. Coughlan,*†
,,	S. Crawford,*
,,	F. Crowley,
,,	F. Fitzgerald,
,,	M. Flaherty,
Deputy	C. Flood,
,,	J. Kemmy,
,,	S. Kenny,
,,	H. Keogh,
,,	K. Lynch,
,,	D. McGinley,
,,	M. Martin,
,,	T. Moffatt,
,,	P. J. Sheenan,†,
,,	P. Upton,†
,,	J. Walsh.

*In the absence of Deputies Costello, Hughes, Woods, Geoghegan-Quinn and Hogan respectively.

† In the absence of Deputies Moffatt, Crowley and Kathleen Lynch respectively, for part of meeting.

DEPUTY S. PATTISON IN THE CHAIR.