SELECT COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND CHILDREN díospóireacht

Prelude

The Select Committee met at 12.15 p.m.

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Bobby Aylward,	Deputy Mattie McGrath,*
Deputy Thomas Byrne,+	Deputy Denis Naughten,*
Deputy Margaret Conlon,	Deputy Charlie O’Connor,
Deputy Paul Connaughton,	Deputy Rory O’Hanlon,
Deputy Lucinda Creighton,*	Deputy Jan O’Sullivan,
Deputy Beverly Flynn,	Deputy James Reilly,
Deputy Mary Harney (Minister for	Deputy Jack Wall.*
Health and Children),

*In the absence of Deputies Bernard Allen, Niall Blaney, Dan Neville and Kathleen Lynch, respectively.

+In the absence of Deputy Charlie O'Connor for part of meeting.

DEPUTY SEAN Ó FEARGHAÍL IN THE CHAIR.