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

Okay, thank you. On behalf on the committee I thank Ms Finn and Ms DeWan. They have travelled quite a distance to be here today.

I wish to explain that our committees are a lot smaller than they used to be. I am not sure if the witnesses have appeared before an Oireachtas committee in the past. As I said, the committee is a lot smaller than in previous times but the greater number of our membership was here today. Some members had to leave early due to other committee responsibilities. I thank all of the members who contributed to this and the previous session. We will suspend the meeting for five minutes to have a photograph taken. The photograph will form part of a montage that will accompany the report to be submitted to the Minister on the completion of our deliberations on this very important issue.

I wish NASC every success in its continuing work.