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

Are we okay?

I would like to thank Ms Maria McDonald for attending today and for not just imparting useful information, but also for a detailed presentation and response to members' points and questions. We are thankful to her for that. It will greatly assist the committee in the consideration of these issues and in the final preparation of our report, which we will present to the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality on the conclusion of this series of hearings.

I will mention while we are still in public session that in our sitting next week, on 8 March, we will have discussions on penal reform with representatives of the Irish Prison Service and the Probation Service. Ms McDonald had it all to herself today, but there will be two bites of the cherry next week. Each is scheduled for a one-hour session. I would like, because this is the practice that we have when we have a guest before us, sniffles or no sniffles, to invite everyone for a photograph which will be part of the compendium for our report.