SELECT COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE, DEFENCE AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS díospóireacht

Prelude

The Select Committee met at 2.00 p.m.

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Deputy Dermot Ahern (Minister for Justice and Law Reform),	Deputy M. J. Nolan,*
Deputy Chris Andrews,*	Deputy Darragh O’Brien,
Deputy Niall Blaney,*	Deputy Jim O’Keeffe,*
Deputy Joe Carey,	Deputy Pat Rabbitte,
Deputy Lucinda Creighton,	Deputy Trevor Sargent,
Deputy Michael P. Kitt,*	Deputy Alan Shatter, Deputy Joanna Tuffy,*.

* In the absence of Deputies Noel Treacy, Thomas Byrne, Niall Collins, Michael Mulcahy, David Stanton and Brian O'Shea, repectively.

DEPUTY BRENDAN KENNEALLY IN THE CHAIR.