Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses, Dr. John Bosco Conama, Ms Wendy Murray, Mr. Brian Crean and Mr. Darren Byrne, for that very informative presentation. I am very taken by Mr. Crean's last words, not to isolate it from all the other information shared but the words "extreme marginalisation" convey the message that has most certainly impacted on the committee members this morning. I thank the witnesses most sincerely for it.

I would like to welcome the other members of the committee. They are all very welcome here. With the assistance of Mr. Darren Byrne, we are going to have a question and answer session with Dr. John Bosco Conama, Ms Wendy Murray and Mr. Brian Crean. We will then have a short engagement ourselves. We will take a break at the end of the session for five minutes to take a photograph with our guests outside. I invite everyone here to participate in that. We hope to prepare and present a report. If members note the document that has been prepared by the Library and Research Unit on this issue and the other salient information that has been shared, I believe we can make an important and fruitful intervention on this issue at this time. It is open to members to indicate via a show of hands that they would like to speak. I invite Deputy Jim O'Callaghan to open our engagement with our guests. He will be followed by Senator Mark Daly.