Finance Committee to resume discussions on pre-Budget submissions

Among the group’s attending tomorrow’s meeting are:

Disability Federation of Ireland
Mental Health Reform
The Carers Association
Society of St Vincent de Paul
The Alzheimer Society of Ireland
Irish Medical Organisation
Barnardos
Respond!
Focus Ireland
Threshold
Community Platform
National Women’s Council of Ireland
Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed

Ciarán Lynch, TD, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, said: “Tomorrow, we will resume our hearings into pre-Budget submissions from civil society groups. It’s an opportunity for us to engage with the various groups on issues raised in their pre-Budget submissions. At our meeting tomorrow we will concentrate on submissions that are considered expenditure/social in nature.”

The meeting will start in Committee Room 4, Leinster House at 10am on Friday 9th November.

Committee proceedings can be followed live at:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=/documents/livewebcast/Web-Live.htm&CatID=83&m=o

For further information please contact:

Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2

P: +3531 618 3903
M: 086-0496518
F: +3531 618 4551

Committee Membership

Deputies

Richard Boyd-Barrett, People Before Profit
Michael Creed, Fine Gael
Jim Daly, Fine Gael
Pearse Doherty, Sinn Fein
Stephen Donnelly, Independent
Sean Fleming, Fianna Fáil
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party
Heather Humphreys, Fine Gael
Kevin Humphreys, Labour Party
Peter Mathews, Fine Gael
Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fein
Ciarán Lynch, Labour Party (Chairman)
Michael McGrath, Fianna Fáil
Michael McNamara, Labour Party
Dara Murphy, Fine Gael
Timmy Dooley, Fianna Fáil
Kieran O’Donnell, Fine Gael
Arthur Spring, Labour Party
Brian Stanley, Sinn Féin
Billy Timmins, Fine Gael
Liam Twomey, Fine Gael

Senators

Sean D Barrett
Thomas Byrne
Paul Coghlan
Michael D’Arcy
Aideen Hayden
Tom Sheahan