John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Toner. Just before I go to Mr. Kennedy I want to mention something from the point of view of the committee. Mr. Courtney added more than was in his statement because we supplied him with the Departmental response and he took it further, which is fine. Following today's meeting a transcript of what Mr. Courtney said will be sent to the Department for its written response to the committee so that we can consider it in full. It is important that Mr. Courtney had the response in advance so that he could pursue it further, because when we get to Committee Stage of a Bill it gets technical and detailed and things needs to be precise. From the committee's point of view, we will get a technical response to the discussion which Mr. Courtney had yesterday. I thank him for that.