Grails comparing a list within a list in a gsp - list

Question

I have a one-to-many relationship table where I am grabbing a list of members by a committee id. When the output is displayed I get the correct amount of members but the corresponding committee position type is being displayed as a list and not the individual position for that committee.
So I came up with the idea of comparing the committee position list with a param that I pass.
When I put in the if tag, nothing is displayed. When I remote the tag, I can see the output of my list and the param that I am pasting into it. I have used == and .equals() but get that same output of nothing.
What an I missing?
Legacy DB Using Oracle 11g, and Grails 2.3.3
Here is an example of my list within a list.
Here is my GSP code
<thead>
<tr class="revheaddark-c">
<!-- display all of the current members information -->
<th width="33%" class="revheaddark-t"><g:message code="trustee.lastName.label" default="Name" /></th>
<th width="33%" class="revheaddark-t"><g:message code="trustee.committees.label" default="Officers of the Board" /></th>
<th width="33%" class="revheaddark-t"><g:message code="trustee.hospital.label" default="Trustee Membership" /></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<g:each in="${trusteeInstanceList}" status="i" var="trusteeInstance">
<tr class="${i % 2 == 0 ? 'even' : 'cellshade'}">
<td><g:link action="contactInfo" params="[contactId:'${trusteeInstance.id}']" id="${trusteeInstance.id}">${fieldValue(bean: trusteeInstance, field: "salutation")}${fieldValue(bean: trusteeInstance, field: "firstName")} ${fieldValue(bean: trusteeInstance, field: "middleName")} ${fieldValue(bean: trusteeInstance, field: "lastName")}</g:link></td>
enter code here
<td><g:each in="${trusteeInstance.membership}">
<g:if test="${it.committees.id == params.committee }">
<%--<tr><td>--%>
${params.committee }, ${it.position }, ${it.committees.id }
<%--</td></tr>--%>
</g:if>
<td><g:each in="${trusteeInstance.board}">
<g:if test="${it.boardName.next() == null}">${it.boardName} </g:if>
<g:else>${it.boardName}, </g:else>
</g:each></td>
</tr>
</g:each>
Here is my controller
def members(){
params.max = Math.min(params.max ? params.int('max'): 15, 100)
def listCommittees = Committees.findAll("from Committees as c where c.hospital.id = '1'")
def indexSearch = Trustee.withCriteria(){
//search by First letter of lastName
if(params.letter){
ilike("lastName", "${params.letter}%")
}
//search by lastName
if(params.lastName){
ilike("lastName", "%${params.lastName}%")
}
//search by firstName
if(params.firstName){
ilike("firstName", "%${params.firstName}%")
}
//search by hospitalName
// if(params.hospital){
// board{
// eq "hospital.id", params.long('hospital')
// }
// }
//search by committeeId
if(params.committee){
//display only members will the board id
membership{
eq "committees.id", params.long('committee')
}
}
//search by Type
if(params.mType){
membership{
eq("memberType", "${params.mType}")
}
}
//search by boardName
if(params.boardId){
//display only members with the boardName
board{
eq("id", params.long('boardId'))
}
}
like("is_Trustee","Y")
order("lastName", "asc")
}
//def memberTrustee = TrusteeMembership.findAll("from TrusteeMembership as tm where tm.committee.id = 'params.committee'")
respond Hospitals.list(params), model:[hospitalsInstanceCount: Hospitals.count(),
trusteeInstanceList : indexSearch,
//memberList: memberTrustee,
sideMenu: Hospitals.list(max:1, order:"desc")]
}
Here are the domains.
class TrusteeMembership implements Serializable{
String position
String memberType
static belongsTo = [trustee:Trustee, committees:Committees]//
static constraints = {
position nullable:true
memberType nullable:true, unique:true
}
static mapping = {
table 'BOT_TRUSTEE_COMMITTEES'
version false
id composite: ['trustee','committees']
trustee column:'TRUSTEE_ID'
committees column: 'COMMITTEE_ID'
position column:'POSITION'
memberType column:'TYPE'
}
package trusteedbtest
class Trustee {
String salutation
String firstName
String middleName
String lastName
static hasMany = [board:Boards, membership:TrusteeMembership]
static constraints = {
salutation nullable: true
firstName nullable: true
middleName nullable: true
lastName nullable: true
}
//map to the existing DB table
static mapping = {
table 'BOT_TRUSTEE'
id column:'TRUSTEE_ID'
salutation column: 'SALUTATION'
firstName column: 'FIRST_NAME'
middleName column: 'MIDDLE_INITIAL'
lastName column: 'LAST_NAME'
}
}