Mr. Eugene Downes:

It is for the committee to decide its best path forward and how it structures its engagement. From our point of view, however, we very much look forward to engaging on a continuous basis not only with committee members but all Members of the Oireachtas, as we have been at constituency level. It is a very exciting moment for us because I do not believe there has ever been a time since 1922 when the Oireachtas has had potentially such a powerful voice in the formation of cultural policy and much other public policy. In a way, what the committee is doing is breaking new ground and we stand ready to work with it to do so collectively, as people working in the arts representing hundreds of thousands of people and as citizens.