David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It has not come across our desk to any significant extent that I can recall. Maybe it is in one of the submissions and we missed it.

I am taken with the NGOs and philanthropy and the fact that a number of philanthropic organisations are going out of business shortly and there will be a shortage. The committee produced 35 reports in the past four or five years and a lot of NGOs came in here. It was costly for quite a number of them to come to the Oireachtas to make presentations to us. I am aware that a lot of them are under pressure to do so but we are grateful for the fact that they did because we made lots of changes to law, we had very good debates and it fed into the system, in particular, in the pre-legislative scrutiny. The area of philanthropy in Ireland is one we need to look at as well and try to beef up a little.

Unless colleagues have further requests or final comments, I thank the witnesses for being here today and for bringing this to our attention. I wish them the best of success with it in the future as it roles on.