Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome all the witnesses. I am glad the committee agreed to my proposal to have these hearings because this is a very important issue, as many of the witnesses have outlined. At home, in my county, people will be looking in at this meeting and they are looking for very simple and basic answers. There are a lot of technical issues here as regards assessments, and we understand that we need to deal with the technicalities.

I will address my first question to Engineers Ireland. Is Mr. Owens an engineer?