Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses. One can get far more done outside of politics - I am a rookie to this House - than one can inside for good reasons.

I was impressed by all the witness but I was very impressed by Ms Casey. Why is she leaving? I do not believe people follow systems. They follow the Ghandis, the Martin Luther Kings, the Helen Kellers, the Larry Pages and the Bill Gates. There is nothing wrong with a wonderful and dynamic personality when one is able to express oneself to an organisation. We need people like Ms Casey. The idea of amalgamating into a system is rubbish. People follow those who are generous enough to make the system better than themselves. It would be a disastrous loss were Ms Casey to step down. How much funding does she need to keep going, immediately and over the next five years? I think she should enter politics.