Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Joint Committee on Health and Children has now completed its consideration of the motion. In accordance with the Orders of Referral and Standing Orders, a message to that effect will be sent to the Dáil and Seanad.

I thank the Minister for his participation this morning, and I thank Ms Walsh and Ms Duffy for being here. I wish to extend my personal thanks to the Minister and his officials for their courtesy to us as a committee, and also to the previous Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, over the past five years. We have always had a very good relationship with the Department and with the Minister, so I thank him and his officials for their work with us in the past five years.