Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept all that, but this is not a one-off. We repeatedly have very small attendances at committee sessions dealing with very important issues and events. We all have other commitments. I spent ten hours in the water committee meeting yesterday and seven hours the week before and was still able to attend to my housing committee commitments. I think anyone from the public looking in on these proceedings will ask where the rest of the committee is, and they would be right to do so.

I will not press amendment No. 107. The Minister's response is absolutely reasonable. It was not the intention of the amendment to try to facilitate or propose amendments to the Residential Tenancies Acts, RTA, sections of it; it was more a practical tidying-up exercise. However, I am happy not to press the amendment on the basis of what the Minister has said.