SELECT COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND CHILDREN díospóireacht

Prelude

The Select Committee met at 10.30 a.m.

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Bobby Aylward,	Deputy Máire Hoctor (Minister of State at the
Deputy Niall Blaney,	Department of Health and Children),
Deputy Margaret Conlon,	Deputy Kathleen Lynch,
Deputy Paul Connaughton,	Deputy Dan Neville,
Deputy Michael Darcy,*	Deputy Charlie O’Connor,
Deputy Michael Fitzpatrick,+	Deputy Rory O’Hanlon,
Deputy Beverley Flynn,	Deputy Jan O’Sullivan,
Deputy Mary Harney (Minister for	Deputy James Reilly,
Health and Children),	Deputy Seán Sherlock.+

*In the absence of Deputy Bernard Allen.

+In the absence of Deputies Niall Blaney and Kathleen Lynch, respectively, for part of meeting.

DEPUTY SEÁN Ó FEARGHAÍL IN THE CHAIR.