Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is a meeting of the joint committee, but the sub-committee comprised of members of this committee together with members from the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications and Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht because of the islands. We accept that some of the recommendations are not within the gift of the Department, in particular, the recommendation on PRSI, because the Department of Social Protection was not represented on the committee. We have already made representations separately to the Minister for Social Protection on that specific point.