Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Ginnell, Ms Deane and Ms O'Donnell for appearing before us to discuss the country-specific recommendations. Last week, I visited Berlin to meet parliamentarians from across EU member states. One of the questions that arose was the level of engagement among member states on country-specific recommendations. Believe it or not, Ireland is ahead of many other member states which have done very little in this regard. It is thanks to organisations such as those represented today that we have an opportunity to debate the country-specific recommendations in public and analyse the issues they raise. I have no doubt our guests will appear before the joint committee again to discuss similar issues.